Excerpt from: A Letter To Mark Twain You once told me you were a pessimist, Mr. Clemens; but great men are usually mistaken about themselves. You are an optimist....  |    |   Read Full Text | 
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| Title: |   | A Letter To Mark Twain | 
| From: |   | Out Of The Dark | 
| Creator: |   | Helen Keller (author) | 
| Date: |   | 1920 | 
| Format: |   | Article | 
| Publisher: |   | Doubleday, Page & Company, New York | 
| Source: |   | Available at selected libraries | 
| Location: |   | pp.208-212 | 
| Keywords: |   | Accident; Advocacy; Blind; Correspondence; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Helen Keller; Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens; New York; New York Association For The Blind; Sensory Disability; Service Organizations; Social Welfare & Communities | 
| Topics: |   | Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy | 
| Note: |   | Read by Mark Twain at a meeting of the New York Association for the Blind, March 29, 1906. | 
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