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Typed letter signed (“Helen Keller”) to the 6th-grade girls of the Winnetka Sunday-School. N.p., 25 July. One page. Thanking them for donations to help others and apologizing for her delayed reply due to traveling on a Vaudeville tour. In part: “You have done a kind deed. Do another, and then another, and you will sow seeds of happiness in this sad world. This is the way to find gladness and beauty in life.” -- Typed letter signed (“Helen Keller”) to Gladys Brownlee. Arcan Ridge, Westport, CT, 10 September 1946. 2 pages on 2 leaves (laid down on archival paper). Regarding civil rights, including the struggles of people of color in America, meeting with Dr. Leslie Carter, Dr. Powell, and Marian Anderson, and offering encouragement to Brownlee. -- KELLER and Martha GRAHAM (1894-1991). A copy of a photograph of Keller, Graham and 6 others dancing for the 1995 film Helen Keller in Her Story taken at Graham’s dance studio in Manhattan, New York City. 1954. 8 1/8 x 10 in. -- Typed letter signed (“Helen Keller”) to Clarence B. Jones. Westport, CT, 24 September 1957. One page. Regretfully declining an invitation to visit Hadley School for the Blind (now Hadley) by Jones, the President of the Board of Trustees, to witness the construction, but wished the school well. In part: “I can only with the School ever increasing achievement in enriching the lives and the intellectual delights of the blind.” -- Typed letter signed (“Helen Keller”) to Clarence Boyd Jones. New York, 30 September 1957. One page, on Keller’s personal stationery. An appeal for donations to support the American Foundation for the Blind. -- Braille document signed (“Helen Keller”), transcribed in another hand. N.p., n.d. One page. Regarding the Jewish Braille Review. -- Together, 4 typed letters signed, one braille letter transcribed and signed, and one copy of a photograph, condition generally very good (a few with toning and minor creasing).