Helen Keller 
Helen Keller’s Journal, 1936-1937 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. ON march 3, 1887, a young Miss Annie Sullivan, but lately graduated from the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, arrived in Tuscumbia, Ala., to begin the edu cation of a deaf and blind child, not quite seven years old, whose name was Helen Keller. Teacher, the little girl called her on that miraculous day about a month later when she first discovered that things and people had names; Teacher she remained for nearly half a century.