Our Duties to the Blind.
Keller, Helen. Our Duties to the Blind. A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Association for Promoting the Interests of the Adult blind, January 5, 1904, Boston: Thomas Todd, (1904).
12mo.; printed wrappers, stapled. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
First edition of this printing of Keller’s lecture delivered the year she graduated, cum laude with a citation for excellence in English letters, from Radcliffe College. In 1906 Keller was appointed to the Massachusetts State Commission for the Blind, in which capacity she crusaded against newborn blindness (ophthalmia neonatorum), simultaneously backing Margaret Sanger’s birth control movement, as ophthalmia neonatorum is caused by venereal disease—still a taboo topic at the time.
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