to Sheila Kirwan Forde Hart
Contributors: Hart, Sheila, recipient
Published: 1959
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Portraits; Love-letters; Cerebral palsy; People with disabilities
Description: Ten love letters written in Dublin, Ireland, to Sheila K. Forde in Cambridge, MA, 1959-1962, 1980 describing his affections for her, and details of daily life. Includes 2 photographs of Brown, the first taken during his childhood and the other as an adult sitting in front of his typewriter. One letter was written in pencil using his foot and the remainder were typed.
Notes: In a tray case, 27 cm.

MS Eng 1353-1353.1. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Christy Brown (1932-1981) was born in Ireland with cerebral palsy. He became a painter, writer and poet. Sheila Forde Hart was born in Ireland and moved to the United States in the late 1950s to live in Cambridge, MA and work at Harvard University.