Miriam Van Waters Papers. Reformatory for Women at Framingham, 1876-1970. Subseries 3. Student correspondence, 1936-1971, n.d. Correspondence: U-V, 1932-1957. A-71, folder 346. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

HMO 6/12/52 I have ans. File student letters

Marion Ann Violette apt 1. 742 North Main St Fall River, Mass

Dear Dr.:

I know your busy these days with assembly programs and one thing or other; thats why I guess you didn't have too much time on your hands to answer my recent letter.

But I know that ([?]) I'm welcome up there anytime so that makes up for it.

These warm days I go to the park with Dawn after the twenty-thirdd (23) of June I hope to go on "Mother's Aid" and that will be a great help to me as I now am getting fourteen ($14.00) dollar from the welfare

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Dept. (now.) I pay ten ($10) out of that for my rent which leave me four ($4.00 left). My baby gets fed, but half the time I go without, so I will be in better circumstances when I go on "Mother's Aid."

Dr.: I'm not too anxious to stay around here now that mom has passed away. I asked Mr Gallagh if and when I'm on "Mother's Aid" is it permissible to move to another town, and he said it would be all right so long as I got a letter from my Landlord stating I have resided here in Fall River Mass one year so as I may be elibible for the aid. My trouble has started here as a young girl and I hope now have ended. - For my part they have

Dr.: I will close now and will continue to write you -over-

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in the near future as it helps me to tell my troubles to some one like yourself - one that knows me as you do.

Please excuse the writing and many mistakes in spelling as I do try to be bright but a'las sometimes I'm just the opposite.

Good bye now and until I write again

I remain - Respectfully Yours ever - Miriam Ann -

P.S. I'm writing to Dear Miss O'Keefe also tonight.

Student letter file

Marion Ann Violettte 742 North Main St Fall River, Mass [June 23t 1952]

Dear Dr.:

I don't know how I'll be able to make the trip up there to see you because I expected to go on Mothers aid this June 23rd after getting the landlords signatures I had been in his property a year. Now a "Mr Gallager" up there tells me there has got to be so much more investigation about my poor life when I was running around. Gee! Its

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hard for me to stomach all this hard luck.

I don't see what my past has to do with the present. I have settled down since I took my child from boarding [?] and that has been now over a year.

Gosh! Dr. I can't live on fourteen dollars ($14.00) a week. My rent alone is ($10) ten. Every place I have worked before both in Fall River + Providence some-one has got there a few

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days after I get each job and has me fired.

Thats why I decided I couldn't stand it now more so I went up to see this Father Mc'Carly when my mother died to go on mothers aid.

Please advise me what to do because the wealfare is trying to make trouble for me if I go on mothers aid. Mr Gallager says it has to do with my past. I don't