Auction Date:2012 Dec 12 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS, signed in her usual indelible pencil “Helen Keller,” three pages, 7 x 9, November 16, 1933. Letter written from South Arcan, Muir of Ord, Ross-shire, Scotland, and addressed to a childhood friend, Helen Freeman. In part, “What an adorable touch-picture that name conjures up in my mind of the sweet child who manifested such joy in learning to spell to me!… This is one of the rare calm periods in my life when good and beautiful come back to me. In retrospect I feel you all near me—your dear mother, Carrie, who so charmingly spelled all that she thought would interest the little chatterbox I was, Frank, who was too bashful to kiss me, Ethel, you and myself waiting behind the door for Dr. [Edward Everett] Hale to come in. O the beams of joy and ripples of merriment that ran through our playtime…I remember, too, how you dragged me with breathless excitement to safety when the run-away horse rushed towards us. Those were unforgettable, carefree days. …When my Teacher, our secretary Miss Thomson and I sailed for Scotland last June, we intended to return to New York in October, as I expected to start a money-raising campaign for the blind, but events have turned out differently.” A vertical crease to right side of each page, expected mailing folds, one passing through Keller’s signature, and some scattered soiling, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by the original transmittal envelope hand-addressed by Polly Thomson, Keller's secretary and assistant. Exquisitely detailed anecdotes of carefree days of childhood.
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