Helen Keller : selected writings /
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Table of Contents:
- 1. I learn many new words : November 10, 1889, letter from Helen Keller to William Wade
- 2. A pleasant Christmas : December 28, 1889, letter from Helen Keller to Ethel Gray
- 3. Wishes for a happy happy Christmas : December 21, 1893 [year uncertain], letter from Helen Keller to John Hitz
- 4. I would like very much to learn how to skate : February 10, 1895, letter from Helen Keller to Kate Keller
- 5. Our work is over for the summer : July 9, 1897, letter from Helen Keller to Kate Keller
- 6. How I wish we could slip away : February 3, 1899, letter from Helen Keller to John Hitz
- 7. The beautiful, free country : June 2, 1899, letter from Helen Keller to Alexander Graham Bell
- 8. Very hard to give up the idea of going to Radcliffe : October 20, 1899, letter from Helen Keller to John Hitz
- 9. Almost wholly a world of books : March 9, 1900, letter from Helen Keller to Alexander Graham Bell
- 10. Only love, dearest Mr. Hitz : April 22, 1900, letter from Helen Keller to John Hitz
- 11. Helen Keller, the story of my life. New York : Dover publications, 1903, chapter I
- 12. The world I live in. New York : Century Company, 1908, part IV : the power of touch
- 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
- 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
- 15. The truth again, Ladies' Home Journal, vol. 26, January 1909
- 16. The enfranchisement of women : published in the Manchester (England) Advertiser, March 3, 1911
- 17. Their cause is my cause : letter written to the strikers at Little Falls, New York, November 1912
- 18. Blind leaders, Outlook, : vol. 105 (September 27, 1913)
- 19. The persecution of those who uphold their downtrodden brethren : December 12, 1917, letter from Helen Keller to President Woodrow Wilson
- 20. I am for you : July 27, 1924, letter from Helen Keller to Wisconsin senator and U.S. presidential candidate Robert La Follette
- 21. Again in working order : December 7, 1901, letter from Helen Keller to John Hitz
- 22. Some nice young men : March 3, 1902, letter from Helen Keller to Kate Keller
- 23. I am very sorry, dear mother : May 12, 1902, letter from Helen Keller to Kate Keller
- 24. I shall not lose her, and I shall gain a brother : April 7, 1905, letter from Helen Keller to Alexander Graham Bell
- 25. To fight my battles without further help : December 14, 1910, letter from Helen Keller to Andrew Carnegie
- 26. To enliven things a bit : January 24, 1911, letter from Helen Keller to Kate Keller
- 27. Blundered so grievously as to love me : October 5, 1912, letter from Helen Keller to Anne Sullivan Macy
- 28. Perhaps a little bit crestfallen : April 21, 1913, letter from Helen Keller to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie
- 29. Have you forgotten all : January 15 (possibly 25), 1914, letter from Helen Keller to John Macy
- 30. Your unkind and altogether unbrotherly note : March 4, 1914, letter from Helen Keller to John Macy
- 31. How alone and unprepared I often feel : January 30, 1917, letter from Helen Keller to Anne Sullivan Macy
- 32. The cruelty of society shakes me so violently : March 1, 1917, letter from Helen Keller to Anne Sullivan Macy
- 33. Manifold demands, requests and interruptions : July 8, 1919, letter from Helen Keller to Kate Keller
- 34. Among the hills in Los Angeles : September 13, 1918, letter from Helen Keller to Lenore Smith
- 35. We have given up vaudeville altogether : August 29, 1920, letter from Helen Keller to Kate Keller
- 36. Memories of mother's journeyings with us : November 20, 1921, letter from Helen Keller to Mildred Keller Tyson
- 37. Our expenses are of necessity greater than for people in ordinary circumstances : September 9, 1922, letter from Helen Keller to Henry Ford
- 38. My religion. New York : Doubleday, 1928, chapter 2
- 39. Midstream : my later life. New York : Doubleday, 1929 : chapter 3 : my first years at Wrentham, chapter II : in the whirlpool
- 40. Helen Keller's journal. London : Michael Joseph, 1938
- 41. How important the foundation is June 7, 1924, letter from Helen Keller to Mildred Keller Tyson
- 42. Who better than the state can be that friend? : Undated 1927 speech before the Iowa State Legislature
- 43. Giving the blind worthwhile books : March 27, 1930, testimony before the committee on the library, house of representatives
- 44. To earn their livelihood : May 19, 1933, letter from Helen Keller to President Franklin Roosevelt
- 45. The talking-book to every corner of dark-land : April 20, 1935, letter from Helen Keller to Eleanor Roosevelt
- 46. An amendment of great importance to the blind : June 21, 1935, letter from Helen Keller to Thomas H. Cullen
- 47. The double shadow of blindness and deafness : June 11, 1941, letter from Helen Keller to Walter Holmes
- 48. The hardest pressed and least cared-for : October 3, 1944, testimony before the house subcommittee of labor investigating aid to physically handicapped
- 49. Multitudes of injured servicemen : February 8, 1945, letter from Helen Keller to Clare Heineman
- 50. The Japanese nation has watched over us both : July 14, 1937, letter from Helen Keller to John H. Finley
- 51. The impressions I have had of Japan, Korea, Manchuria, and the Pacific : September 14, 1937, letter from Helen Keller to M.C. Migel
- 52. The Nazi authorities have closed the institute : December 2, 1938, letter from Helen Keller to John H. Finley
- 53. This time of immeasurable stakes : October 30, 1944, letter from Helen Keller to Vice-President Henry A. Wallace
- 54. The battle of eyes : June 24, 1929, letter from Helen Keller to M.C. Migel
- 55. Discuss the thousand and one things : August 3, 1931, letter from Helen Keller to Amelia Bond
- 56. These adventures under the midnight sun : August 21, 1933, letter from Helen Keller to M.C. Migel
- 57. My only news is loneliness : undated 1934 or 1935, letter from Helen Keller to Anne Sullivan Macy
- 58. My faith that Teacher is near is absolute : December 3, 1936, letter from Helen Keller to M.C. Migel
- 59. Bury myself deep in thought : September 4, 1938, letter from Helen Keller to Lenore Smith
- 60. You inspire other women : January 30, 1939, letter from Helen Keller to Eleanor Roosevelt
- 61. That cup of vernal delight : March 21, 1943, letter from Helen Keller to Katharine Cornell
- 62. Alas! I am incorrigible : April 28, 1943, letter from Helen Keller to Clare Heineman
- 63. Happy heart-throbs : June 19, 1944, letter from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson
- 64. My public acts and utterances : September 18, 1944, letter from Helen Keller to Nella Braddy Henney
- 65. A peal of joy from my heart over the president's re-election : November 11, 1944, letter from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson
- 66. The tidings of the president's death : April 22, 1945, letter from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson
- 67. Teacher. New York : Doubleday, 1956, chapter 5
- 68. The beauty and the tragedy which endeared Greece to me : February 10, 1947, letter from Helen Keller to Eric Boulter
- 69. Hiroshima's fate is a Greek tragedy on a vast scale : October 14, 1948, letter from Helen Keller to Nella Braddy Henney
- 70. Hiroshima is beginning to flourish again : undated speech from 1948 trip to Hiroshima
- 71. Our tour of South Africa : August 1, 1951, letter from Helen Keller to Jo and Florence Davidson
- 72. Our trip through the near east : July 2, 1952, letter from Helen Keller to Nella Braddy Henney
- 73. The blind in Chile : April 25, 1953, speech at the University of Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
- 74. One of the numberless instruments in God's hand : February 1, 1955, farewell speech
- 75. The people of India most hospitable : March 14, 1955, letter from Helen Keller to Eric Boulter
- 76. Another abyss of evil : September 22, 1946, letter from Helen Keller to Nella Braddy Henney
- 77. How you and I will talk : December 6, 1949, letter from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson
- 78. The hearts of true friends : July 24, 1950, letter from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson
- 79. Beneath the fun and gaiety there was a serious motif : January 31, 1951, letter from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson
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- All that is greatest and most beneficent in American womanhood : August 5, 1957, letter from Helen Keller to Eleanor Roosevelt.