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KELLER HELEN: (1880-1968) American Autho
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KELLER HELEN: (1880-1968) American Author, Activist & Lecturer. T.L.S., Helen Keller, in bold pencil, one page, 4to, Wrentham, Massachusetts, 13th December n.y. (annotated 1914 in pencil and ink in an unidentified hand), to Mr. Tavener. Keller thanks her correspondent for his kind message of encouragement 'at a time when every generous heart and every thinking mind is filled with woe' and continues 'It is sweet to my spirit to feel the hand-clasp of my blind friends in Glasgow Aberdeen [ink correction in an unidentified hand] across the thousands of miles that separate us', further remarking 'I am grieved to think that sorrow is being added to the darkness of so many of the sightless by the terrible war. But I have faith which is deeper than optimism. Even when tragedy seems to be on every side, and horrors are pouring in, and the pillars of the world are reeling to and fro, I still believe in life, in my fellowmen, in God's promise of new light and new freedom for all'. With blank integral leaf. Some very light, extremely minor creasing, about VG
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KELLER HELEN: (1880-1968) American Author, Activist & Lecturer. T.L.S., Helen Keller, in bold pencil, one page, 4to, Wrentham, Massachusetts, 13th December n.y. (annotated 1914 in pencil and ink in an unidentified hand), to Mr. Tavener. Keller thanks her correspondent for his kind message of encouragement 'at a time when every generous heart and every thinking mind is filled with woe' and continues 'It is sweet to my spirit to feel the hand-clasp of my blind friends in Glasgow Aberdeen [ink correction in an unidentified hand] across the thousands of miles that separate us', further remarking 'I am grieved to think that sorrow is being added to the darkness of so many of the sightless by the terrible war. But I have faith which is deeper than optimism. Even when tragedy seems to be on every side, and horrors are pouring in, and the pillars of the world are reeling to and fro, I still believe in life, in my fellowmen, in God's promise of new light and new freedom for all'. With blank integral leaf. Some very light, extremely minor creasing, about VG
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