Helen Keller’s Beautiful Poetic Sentiment About the Sea, Inscribed in a Book For the Library of the SS Roosevelt
Its warmth shows how she as a blind woman could wonderfully impart visible images in her work.
"How beautiful upon the waters are swift ships that bring glad tidings."
As a girl, Helen Keller contracted a disease, either scarlet fever or meningitis, that left her deaf and blind. Yet over the coming years, she learned to communicate with the outside world, helped by teacher Anne Sullivan, going on...
"How beautiful upon the waters are swift ships that bring glad tidings."
As a girl, Helen Keller contracted a disease, either scarlet fever or meningitis, that left her deaf and blind. Yet over the coming years, she learned to communicate with the outside world, helped by teacher Anne Sullivan, going on to become an author, advocate for social causes, and inspiration to generations of people.
In 1913, at the age of 33, Keller wrote Out of the Dark, a series of essays on the position of women in society, the higher education of women, blindness, and other contemporary topics.
The S.S. President Roosevelt was so named after Theodore Roosevelt and served as a passenger vessel until it was called into service during World War II, when it served under another President Roosevelt. In 1930, Keller presented this vessel with a copy of the newest edition of this book and inscribed within it a wonderful poetic sentiment that she wrote about the sea.
Autograph quotation signed, the book Out of the Dark, by Helen Keller, inscribed on April 9, 1930 with a sentiment that is a poem in itself. "To the Seamen's Library of the S.S. President Roosevelt. How beautiful upon the waters are swift ships that bring glad tidings. Helen Keller." Manuscripts of Keller such as this are very uncommon, this being the first we have had.
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