Deaf and blind from the age of 19 months, Helen Keller was just short of seven years old when she was placed in the care of Anne Sullivan, who taught her to communicate using manual and Braille alphabets. SLC first met Keller in March 1895; the following year, he convinced his “business agent,” the millionaire Henry Huttleston Rogers, to subsidize Keller’s education. She graduated B.A. from Radcliffe in 1904, and became world famous as a writer and social activist. SLC paid tribute to Keller in chapter 61 of Following the Equator (1897), and hosted her at his house, Stormfield, in 1909. In a speech later that year he called her “the most marvelous person of her sex that has existed on this earth since Joan of Arc.”