Signed book: Midstream: My Later Life. Later printing. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.25, 362 pages. Neatly signed and inscribed on the first free end page in pencil, "To: President Hoover, whose kindness to the blind is a great benefit—so great that it is a sun in the heart of darkness. Gratefully, Helen Keller, April 1931." Autographic condition: very fine. Book condition: VG/None, with sunning to spine.
On April 22, 1931, the Associated Press reported on Helen Keller's trip to the nation's capital for a world conference on work for the blind, which included a visit to the White House: 'President and Mrs. Hoover were unusually attentive today to a serene-faced woman who was their luncheon guest. She was blind. Helen Keller, whom Mark Twain called one of the greatest characters of the nineteenth century. As always, she seemed happy and was amazingly aware of all that went on about her.'
From the personal collection of President Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, consigned by Hoover's great granddaughter.
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