p.1

Chicago, 323 West Randolp[sp] St.

Dear Madame [?]

I come to ask you a service, not
for me but for a friend of mine,
a lady perfectly honorable--speaking
French as I do and German as you
do. She desires a situation for teaching
or speaking and teaching the nice
little works[?]. [word?] order we understand
better what she wants & will tell you
what she is. Born in the French Switzerland
she belong[sic] to a very distinguished family
She has inhabited Germany for [?illegible number]
years. her husband is very [two words illegible maybe bad and]
She would [illegible] in his family if
she had not [illegible] two little houses
here and could sell them now. But
[illegible] she would loose [sic] much and cannot
afford it. She would have a situation
not to be far from Chicago and at
the same time for [four words illegible]