[Rarebooks] FS: Helen Keller letter to son of railroad magnate Jay Gould

[Charles Agvent]

KELLER,  Helen. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) TO EDWIN  GOULD.  Forest
Hills, NY: 23 Nov. 1929.  One-page letter of @170 words to Edwin Gould
thanking  him  for the aid he is giving to the cause of  the  American
Foundation for the Blind.  In writing on behalf of the blind  children
in  America,  Keller lives again "the hopeless, groping, silent  years
before  I  was taught" and concludes "with the earnest hope  that  you
will  continue to be a ray of light in darkened little lives."  SIGNED
by  Keller in pencil, as usual.  Gould was the son of  the  notorious
financier and railroad magnate Jay Gould.  Edwin was hired as a  young
man  by  his  father  after the younger Gould made  a  profit  of  one
million  dollars speculating in stocks within just six months.  Though
successful  in his own right, he differed from his more famous  father
in  that he generously contributed to many charities including his own
Edwin Gould Foundation for Children.  Creases from folding,  otherwise
Fine.                                                          $800.00

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