Dear Helen Keller: A few weeks ago, some young girls who wanted an interview for their high-school paper in New Rochelle rowed over to my island and sat on my terrace and asked me a great many questions. And one of the questions was: "Who, in your opinion, is the greatest living woman?" I didn't even need time for reflection. There was no doubt in my mind. I said "Anne Sullivan Macy." There is no hour of the day in which I do not think of you, her great work that lives after her as "A Christmas Carol" lives after Charles Dickens. And there will be no such hour in any day for a long time to come. My love to you and Polly Thompson. Alexander Woollcott
Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
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Notes:
Typewritten condolence letter on stationery from The Plaza, New York, to Helen Keller from Alexander Woollcott, a writer for the New Yorker Magazine. He owned an island in Vermont that is referenced in this letter.
