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Your darling child

HELEN KELLER.

Toward the end of May Mrs. Keller, Helen, and Miss Sullivan started for Boston.
On the way they spent a few days in Washington, where they saw Dr. Alexander
Graham Bell and called on President Cleveland. On May 26th they arrived in
Boston and went to the Perkins Institution; here Helen met the little blind girls
with whom she had corresponded the year before.

Early in July she went to Brewster, Massachusetts, and spent the rest of the
summer. Here occurred her first encounter with the sea, of which she has since
written.

TO MISS MARY C. MOORE

So. Boston, Mass. Sept. 1888

My dear Miss Moore

Are you very glad to receive a nice letter from your darling little friend? I love
you very dearly because you are my friend.

My precious little sister is quite well now. She likes to sit in my little rocking-
chair and put her kitty to sleep. Would you like to see darling little Mildred? She
is a very pretty baby.

Her eyes are very big and blue, and her cheeks are soft and round and rosy and
her hair is very bright and golden. She is very good and sweet when she does not
cry loud. Next summer Mildred will go out in the garden with me and pick the