Letter from Annie Sullivan to Michael Anagnos, August 23, 1887 (pp. 2 & 3 of 8)
Letter from Annie Sullivan to Michael Anagnos, August 23, 1887 (pp. 2 & 3 of 8)
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Letter from Annie Sullivan to Michael Anagnos, August 23, 1887 (pp. 2 & 3 of 8)
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... Neither delicacies nor dress (inducements which seldom fail) tempted her from the perusal of the list of words. I cut up several sheets, and sewed the words on pasteboard so that she could form sentences on the frame. I think the frame useful in teaching the child to construct sentences, but I think she should know how to spell first. It is asking too much of a child, to learn to spell and form sentences at the same time. At least that has been my experience with Helen. I will enclose a letter she has just written to her cousin George, and I think you will be able to form a better idea of her command of language by reading it, than you could from anything I could write. It is the third letter she has written. We spent a week at her Cousin George's and while there she wrote her mother a beautiful letter. I would like so much to send it; but Mrs. Keller will not part with it. On her return home, as soon as I gave her pencil and paper, she perposed [sic] writing to Cousin George...
Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
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Handwritten letter from Anne Sullivan to Michael Anagnos, Director of Perkins School for the Blind. Anagnos was responsible for sending Anne Sullivan to Tuscumbia, Alabama to teach Helen Keller. The letter discusses observations and details relating to the early education of Helen Keller.
