[Rarebooks] FS: Superb Long SIGNED Letter from Helen Keller: "Nothing can take from you a beautiful day, or a splendid hour you have enjoyed"

[Charles Agvent]

KELLER, Helen. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS). Tulsa, OK, 17 March 1922. Fine 
three-page letter on Hotel Tulsa stationery, 6" x 9-1/4", of @600 words 
to a Miss Hortop SIGNED in pencil by Keller. In part: “The lovely verse 
you sent brought a glow to my heart. But I did not need it to know that 
your dear thoughts have hovered about me on my journeyings. The darling 
flowers you have sent me from city to city have whispered how sweetly 
you were thinking of us all. How did you ever find time to gather, and 
wrap them up so snugly from the cold, that they might gladden me! And 
your messages too -- they have come like a response to my mood. At this 
moment I feel the sweet discontent awakened by the spring sunshine, and 
I long to escape from the endless restraints and complex life of the 
city. In this mood I read your verse about how happy we can be anywhere 
if we can only touch a flower or enjoy the leafy music of a tree. The 
words you wrote last Christmas have come back to me cheeringly amid the 
difficulties of our work, 'Nothing can take from you a beautiful day, or 
a splendid hour you have enjoyed.'" Keller speaks of her teacher's 
illness and how Polly [Thomson] took her place with Keller on stage. She 
then discusses the cities on the rest of her tour and wishes Miss Hortop 
could join them: "It is restful to be in presence of one whose life 
mirrors the beauty of mountains and the joy of high thoughts.... Men and 
women like you are living epistles in which is written the sure prophecy 
of a brighter, happier future for mankind." Creases from mailing, minor 
splitting along folds and light foxing and corner paper loss on the last 
page; two lines on the last page faint and written over in pencil, 
likely by Polly Thomson. Overall Very Good. (#019662)        $1,500

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