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gladly do it. Please do not
{ ?} this to the waste basket
without careful consideration and
should you think me a Fake
please write the Tower Bro
of this place the most reliable
business from here and ask
them if I am worthy of assistance.
You might say why dont [sic] some one
here assist me my wife and
Daughter would not ask nor
take assistance from any one here
they would sooner die in the
Almshouse they are ignorant of
this letter and should you help
my daughter through Colege [sic] it
would be then that I would let
her know who her Benefactor
was.