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Contents Acknowledgments 17 List of Figures 19 Introduction 26 PART ONE 1880-1900 36 A Growing up 37 1."I learn many new words": November 10, 1889 letter from Helen Keller to William Wade. 38 2. "a pleasant Christmas": December 28, 1889 letter from Helen Keller to Ethel Gray. 39 3. "wishes for a happy, happy Christmas": December 21, 1893 [year uncertain] letter from Helen Keller to John Hitz. 40 4. "I would like very much to learn how to skate": February 10, 1895 letter from Helen Keller to Kate Keller. 42 5. "our work is over for the summer": July 9, 1897 letter from Helen Keller to Kate Keller. 45 6. "How I wish we could slip away": February 3, 1899 letter from Helen Keller to John Hitz. 49 7. "the beautiful, free country": June 2, 1899 letter from Helen Keller to Alexander Graham Bell. 52 8. "very hard to give up the idea of going to Radcliffe": Oct 20, 1899 letter from Helen Keller to John Hitz. 55 9. "almost wholly a world of books": March 9, 1900 letter from Helen Keller to Alexander Graham Bell. 58 10. "Only love, dearest Mr. Hitz": April 22, 1900 letter from Helen Keller to John Hitz. 62 PART TWO 1900-1924 66 A Major Works 67 11. The Story of My Life, New York: Dover Publications, 1903, chapter 1. 68 12. The World I Live In. New York: Century Company, 1908, Part IV: "The Power of Touch." 75 B Politics 85 13. "Our Duties to the Blind," Presented at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Association for Promoting the Interests of the Adult Blind, January 5, 1904, Boston. 86 14. "a fair chance to be independent and self-respecting and useful": February 18, 1905 letter from Helen Keller to Mrs. Elliot Foster, Secretary of the Board of Education of the Blind, Hartford, Connecticut. 99 15. "The Truth Again," Ladies Home Journal, vol. 26, January 1909. 104 16. "The Enfranchisement of Women": Published in the Manchester (England) Advertiser, March 3, 1911. 111 17. "Their cause is my cause": Letter written to the strikers at Little Falls, New York, November 1912. 116 18. "Blind Leaders," Outlook vol. 105 (September 27, 1913). 118 19. "the persecution of those who uphold their downtrodden brethren": December 12, 1917 letter from Helen Keller to President Woodrow Wilson. 140 20. "I am for you": August 1924 letter from Helen Keller to Wisconsin Senator and U.S. presidential candidate Robert La Follette. 148 C Friendships, Intimacies, and the Everyday 154 21. "again in working order": December 7, 1901, Helen Keller to John Hitz. 155 22. "some nice young men": March 3, 1902 letter from Helen Keller to Kate Keller. 156 23. "I am very sorry, dear mother": May 12, 1902 letter from Helen Keller to Kate Keller. 160 24. "I shall not lose her, and I shall gain a brother": April 7, 1905 letter from Helen Keller to Alexander Graham Bell. 163 25. "to fight my battles without further help": December 14, 1910 letter from Helen Keller to Andrew Carnegie. 166 26. "to enliven things a bit": January 24, 1911 letter from Helen Keller to Kate Keller. 169 27. "blundered so grievously as to love me": October 5, 1912 letter from Helen Keller to Anne Sullivan. 172 28. "perhaps a little bit crestfallen": April 21, 1913 letter from Helen Keller to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. 177 29. "Have you forgotten all": January 15 (possibly 25), 1914 letter from Helen Keller to John Macy. 181 30. "your unkind and altogether unbrotherly note": March 4, 1914 letter from Helen Keller to John Macy. 188 31. "how alone and unprepared I often feel": January 30, 1917 letter from Helen Keller to Anne Sullivan Macy.192 32. "the cruelty of society shakes me so violently": March 1, 1917 letter from Helen Keller to Anne Sullivan Macy. 197 33. "manifold demands, requests and interruptions": July 8, 1919 letter from Helen Keller to Kate Keller. 201 34. "among the hills in Los Angeles": September September 13, 1919 letter from Helen Keller to Lenore Smith. 206 35. "we have given up vaudeville altogether": August 29, 1920 letter from Helen Keller to Kate Keller. 211 36. "memories of mother's journeyings with us": November November 20, 1921 letter from Helen Keller to Mildred Keller Tyson. 216 37. "our expenses are of necessity greater than for people in ordinary circumstances": September 9, 1922 letter from Helen Keller to Henry Ford. 221 PART III 1924-1945 226 A Major Works 227 38. My Religion. New York: Doubleday, 1928, chapter 2. 228 39. Midstream: My Later Life. New York: Doubleday, 1929: Chapter 3: "My First Years at Wentham," Chapter 11: "In the Whirlpool." 244 40. Helen Keller's Journal. London: Michael Joseph, Ltd., 1938. 283 B Politics 321 41. "how important the Foundation is": June 7, 1924 letter from Helen Keller to Mildred Keller Tyson. 322 42. "who better than the state can be that friend?": Undated 1927 speech before Iowa State Legislature. 331 43. "Giving the blind worthwhile books": March 27, 1930 testimony before the Committee on the Library, House of Representatives. 334 44. "to earn their livelihood": May 19, 1933 letter from Helen Keller to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 336 45. "the talking book to every corner of Dark-land": April 20, 1935 letter from Helen Keller to Eleanor Roosevelt. 338 46. "an amendment of great importance to the blind": June 21, 1935 letter from Helen Keller to Thomas H. Cullen. 340 47. "the double shadow of blindness and deafness": June 11, 1941 letter from Helen Keller to Walter Holmes. 342 48. "the hardest pressed and least cared for": October 3, 1944 testimony before the House Subcommittee of Labor Investigating Aid to Physically Handicapped. 346 49. "multitudes of injured servicemen": February 8, 1945 from Helen Keller to Clare Heineman. 249 C Travel 354 50. "the Japanese nation has watched over us both": July 14, 1937 letter from Helen Keller to John H. Finley. 355 51. "the impressions I have had of Japan, Korea, Manchuria, and the Pacific": September 14, 1937 letter from Helen Keller to M.C. Migel. 362 52. "the Nazi authorities have closed the Institute": December 2, 1938 letter from Helen Keller to John H. Finley. 371 53. "this time of immeasurable stakes": October 30, 1944 letter from Helen Keller to Henry A. Wallace. 377 D Friendships, Intimacies, and the Everyday 384 54. "the Battle of Eyes": June 24, 1929 letter from Helen Keller to M.C. Migel. 385 55. "discuss the thousand and one things": August 3, 1931 letter from Helen Keller to Amelia Bond. 389 56. "these adventures under the Midnight Sun": August 21, 1933 letter from Helen Keller to M.C. Migel. 392 57. "My only news is loneliness": Undated 1934 or 1935 letter from Helen Keller to Anne Sullivan Macy. 401 58. "My faith that Teacher is near is absolute": December 3, 1936 letter from Helen Keller to M.C. Migel. 405 59. "bury myself deep in thought": September 4, 1938 letter from Helen Keller to Lenore Smith. 409 60. "you inspire other women": January 30, 1939 letter from Helen Keller to Eleanor Roosevelt. 412 61. "that cup of vernal delight": March 21, 1943 letter from Helen Keller to Katharine Cornell. 415 62. "Alas! I am incorrigible": April 28, 1943 from Helen Keller to Clare Heineman. 419 63. "happy heart-throbs": June 19, 1944 letter from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson. 423 64. "my public acts and utterances": September 18, 1944 letter from Helen Keller to Nella Braddy Henney. 428 65. "a peal of joy from my heart over the President's re-election": November 11, 1944 letter from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson. 437 66. "the tidings of the President's death": April 22, 1945 from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson. 442 PART IV 1946-1968 449 A Major Works 450 67. Teacher. New York: Doubleday, 1956, Chapter 5. 451 B Travel 458 68. "the beauty and the tragedy which endeared Greece to me": February 10, 1947 letter from Helen Keller to Eric Boulter. 459 69. "Hiroshima's fate is a Greek tragedy on a vast scale": October 14, 1948 letter from Helen Keller to Nella Braddy Henney. 466 70. "Hiroshima is beginning to flourish again": Undated speech from 1948 trip to Hiroshima. 475 71. "our tour of South Africa": August 1, 1951 letter from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson. 478 72. "our trip through the Near East": July 2, 1952 letter from Helen Keller to Nella Braddy Henney. 487 73. "the blind in Chile": April 25, 1953 speech at the University of Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile. 503 74. "one of the numberless instruments in God's Hand": February 1, 1955 speech by Helen Keller. 506 75. "the people of India most hospitable": March 14, 1955 letter from Helen Keller to Eric Boulter. 508 C Friendships, Intimacies, and the Everyday 513 76. "another abyss of evil": September 22, 1946 letter from Helen Keller to Nella Braddy Henney. 513 77. "how you and I will talk": December 6, 1949 letter from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson. 522 78. "the hearts of true friends": July 24, 1950 letter from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson. 530 79. "Beneath the fun and gaiety there was a serious motif": January 31, 1951 from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson. 538 80. "all that is greatest and most beneficent in American womanhood": August 5, 1957 letter from Helen Keller to Eleanor Roosevelt. 545 Notes 547 Bibliography 560
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Keller, Helen, 1880-1968.
Blind-deaf women -- United States.