Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) met Annie and Helen at a party in the home of Laurence Hutton in New York City in the winter of 1894.
Seated next to Helen is the great American writer, Mark Twain, and standing next to Annie is urban author Lawerance Hutton. The picture was taken in 1902.	This was the beginning of a deep friendship between Mr. Twain, Annie and Helen. In 1902, Helen published the "Story of My Life" which included the letters Annie wrote to Mrs. Hopkins (Annie's house mother from Perkins.) Mr. Twain wrote to Helen, "I am charmed with your book-enchanted. You are a wonderful creature, the most wounderful in the world- you and your other half together-Miss Sullivan, I mean, for it took the pair of you to make a complete and perfect whole. How she stands out in her letters! Her brilliancy, penetration, originality, wisdom, character, and the fine literary competencies of her pen-they are all there."