Letters, 1887-1902.

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Letters, 1887-1902.

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The letters in this collection were written by Miss Sullivan to Anagnos between 1887 and 1902 and provide much information relative to Helen Keller's progress in reading, writing, and speaking during her early life in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Included are details of methods used to educate her, the gradual development of her disposition, imagination, and literary abilities, the publication of her first stories (including several letters detailing the plagiarism furor over the "Frost King"), and many remarks on Helen's troubled homelife, e.g. her mother's inadequacies and her father's financial difficulties. Also included is Miss Sullivan's instruction schedule, quotations from passages written by her student, details of their trips to Washington, D.C. and Boston, Massachusetts, and references to the financial affairs of the Perkins Institute. Several letters refer to Miss Sullivan's use of telegraphy as a means of communication with the handicapped, her feelings concerning her contributions as a woman to special education, and her opinions on the education of the deaf.

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Anagnos, Michael, 1837-1906

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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...

Perkins School for the Blind

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The New England Asylum for the Blind was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1829 (St 1828, c 111); and opened in Boston in 1832 as the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind. It was successively renamed the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind in 1839, the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in 1877, and the Perkins School for the Blind in 1955. The institution relocated in Watertown in 1912. Although not a state...

Sullivan, Annie, 1866-1936

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Annie Sullivan was the teacher of Helen Keller. For biographical information see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letter, 1902. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007368 Anne Mansfield ("Annie") Sullivan (1866-1936) became the teacher of Helen Keller (1880-1968) in 1887 upon the recommendation of Michael Anagnos (1837-1906), director of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in South Boston, Mass., from which...