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HELEN KELLER

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HELEN KELLER
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>HELEN KELLER </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>TLS on personal letterhead, 1p, 4to, New York, Sep 4, 1948. In part, “...<i>Try to imagine, if you can, the anguish and horror you would experience bowed down by the twofold weight of blindness and deafness, with no hope of emerging from an utter isolation! Still throbbing with natural emotions and desires, you would feel through the sense of touch the existence of a living world, and desperately but vainly you would seek an escape into its healing light. All of your pleasures would vanish in a dreadful monotony of silent days. Even work, man’s Divine Heritage—work that can bind up broken hearts— would be lost to you. Family and friends might surround you with love, but consolation alone cannot restore usefulness, or bring release from that hardest prison— a tomb of the mind and a dungeon of the body</i>...” Normal folds; mounting traces on verso; o/w VG.</span></p>