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is quite feeble. My grandmother and aunt Corinne are here. Grandmother is

going to make me two new dresses. Give my love to all the little girls, and tell
them that Helen loves them very, very much. Eva sends love to all.

With much love and many kisses, from your affectionate little friend,

HELEN ADAMS KELLER.

During the summer Miss Sullivan was away from Helen for three months and a
half, the first separation of teacher and pupil.

Only once afterward in fifteen years was their constant companionship broken
for more than a few days at a time.

TO MISS ANNE MANSFIELD SULLIVAN

Tuscumbia, Ala., August 7, 1889.

Dearest Teacher—I am very glad to write to you this evening, for I have been
thinking much about you all day. I am sitting on the piazza, and my little white
pigeon is perched on the back of my chair, watching me write. Her little brown
mate has flown away with the other birds; but Annie is not sad, for she likes to
stay with me. Fauntleroy is asleep upstairs, and Nancy is putting Lucy to bed.

Perhaps the mocking bird is singing them to sleep. All the beautiful flowers are
in bloom now. The air is sweet with the perfume of jasmines, heliotropes and
roses. It is getting warm here now, so father is going to take us to the Quarry on
the 20th of August. I think we shall have a beautiful time out in the cool,
pleasant woods. I will write and tell you all the pleasant things we do. I am so
glad that Lester and Henry are good little infants. Give them many sweet kisses
for me.