[Ads-l] Request help tracing Helen Keller quotation

[Jesse Sheidlower]

I've verified this request (it's accurate; May 1935 p. 8 for those following along at home), and sent Garson (offlist) an image of the page.

Jesse Sheidlower

On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 04:09:48PM -0400, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
> The following words have been attributed to Helen Keller, and I was
> asked to perform a trace:
> 
> Everybody talks, nobody listens.
> Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
> 
> According to VCU Libraries Social Welfare History Project the
> quotation appeared in the article "The Beauty of Silence" by Helen
> Keller which was published in the May 1935 issue of Home Magazine.
> Here is a link to the reprinted article:
> https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/beauty-silence/
> 
> The goal is to obtain a complete, accurate, and verified citation.
> 
> Apparently, The Interwar Culture: 1930-1939 database by Adam Matthew
> Digital holds the complete digitized January–June 1935 bound volume.
> 
> https://www-interwarculture-amdigital-co-uk.mcpl.idm.oclc.org/
> 
> https://www.interwarculture.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Detail/the-home-magazine-january-june-1935/21940273
> 
> Do you have access to this database? Perhaps you can search for the
> quotation and send me scans of the article. It would also be helpful
> to obtain scans showing the publication title, issue date, and
> publisher information for the magazine.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can provide
> Garson O'Toole
> 
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