Helen Keller letter, 1947 Mar. 24.

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Helen Keller letter, 1947 Mar. 24.

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Typewritten letter addressed to "Dear Miss Peaslee" on Helen Keller letterhead, 15 West 16th Street, New York 11, N.Y., with pencilled signature in full; eloquent, strong appeal for funds for the Committee on the Deaf-blind of America of the American Foundation for the Blind.

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American Foundation for the Blind. Committee on the Deaf-blind of America.

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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...