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TO MISS CAROLINE DERBY

South Boston, May 9, 1892.

My dear Miss Carrie:—I was much pleased to receive your kind letter. Need I
tell you that I was more than delighted to hear that you are really interested in
the “tea”? Of course we must not give it up. Very soon I am going far away, to
my own dear home, in the sunny south, and it would always make me happy to
think that the last thing which my dear friends in Boston did for my pleasure was

to help make the lives of many little sightless children good and happy. I know
that kind people cannot help feeling a tender sympathy for the little ones, who
cannot see the beautiful light, or any of the wonderful things which give them
pleasure; and it seems to me that all loving sympathy must express itself in acts
of kindness; and when the friends of little helpless blind children understand that
we are working for their happiness, they will come and make our “tea” a
success, and I am sure I shall be the happiest little girl in all the world.

Please let Bishop Brooks know our plans, so that he may arrange to be with us. I
am glad Miss Eleanor is interested. Please give her my love. I will see you
tomorrow and then we can make the rest of our plans. Please give your dear aunt
teacher’s and my love and tell her that we enjoyed our little visit very much
indeed.

Lovingly yours,

HELEN KELLER.

TO MR. JOHN P. SPAULDING

South Boston, May 11th, 1892.

My dear Mr. Spaulding:—I am afraid you will think your little friend, Helen,
very troublesome when you read this letter; but I am sure you will not blame me
when I tell you that I am very anxious about something. You remember teacher

and I told you Sunday that I wanted to have a little tea in aid of the kindergarten.
We thought everything was arranged: but we found Monday that Mrs. Elliott
would not be willing to let us invite more than fifty people, because Mrs. Howe’s
house is quite small.