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Forest Hills, LI, 1925. To Mr. DeLaitre, typed letter signed, one page, 10-3/8" x 6-3/4", 27 lines, signed in pen at the bottom, "Helen Keller" to Mr. DeLaitre. Evidence of quarter folds, else fine. Helen Keller (1880-1968), noted American lecturer and author, was blind and deaf from the age of two. She spent her life raising money for the blind and other social causes, especially working for The American Foundation for the Blind. In this early letter (she had graduated from Radcliffe in 1904), she announces that Dr. Henry van Dyke, as National Chairman of the American Foundation for the Blind, is "endeavoring to secure an Endowment Fund." She informs Mr. DeLaitre that she will be visiting his city soon to speak at "one or two meetings" and expresses a desire to meet him. This is fine letter, written early in Miss Keller's extraordinary career and is signed in pen -- quite unusual as her signatures are usually in pencil.

Angers: Editions Jacques-Petit, 1948. One of 1590 copies on velin pur chiffon de Johannot from a total edition of 2000. 8vo. Handsomely bound in 3/4 blue-green morocco and green paste-paper boards, blind-stamped with graph design wrapped around upper and lower covers, spine smooth, title gilt, top edge gilt, original covers bound in, fine. Illustrated with four double-page drawings in pen and watercolor after Touchet plus 71 drawings in-texte. Printed on the presses of Editions de l'Ouest, the color executed in pochoir by the publisher. Knock, a three-act comedy, was performed for the first time at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees on the 15 December, 1923 under the direction of Jacques Hebertot, with mise-en-scene and decor by Louis Jouvet, who also acted in the play.