Correspondence from Carl Zigrosser, 1917-1940.

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Correspondence from Carl Zigrosser, 1917-1940.

Carl Zigrosser wrote to Helen Keller in the hopes that she might contribute an article to The Modern School. Miss Polly Thompson wrote back with Miss Keller's regrets. The 1940 correspondence is a fund-raising letter signed by Keller.

5 items (7 leaves).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7008586

University of Pennsylvania Library

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Thompson, Polly

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Keller, Helen, 1880-1968

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Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) devoted her life to bettering the education and treatment of the blind, the deaf, and the nonverbal, and was a pioneer in educating the public in the prevention of blindness in newborns. Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880. When Helen Keller was 19 months old she became ill with Scarlet Fever, which resulted in her becoming blind and deaf. In her autobiography The Story of My Life, a book she first wrote in 1903 at the age of 23, she desc...