Correspondence (incoming): begging letters, Bit-Bu

Proof. please let me have a kind word any way

Yours Respectfully

Miss May E. Boggs 1108 Washington St Fremont Ohio

[will type as written]

so I heair that you have a good thing to give nice home for the hom less girls I think that is a great thing

please Parden me but we are ammen to ask

from your truly

Mrs Y W Booth

1317 6 st Sacramento febry the 22 1901

Mrs Stanford my Deair madem

We are try to raise $300. so thought that I wood write you a few lines and ask you if wood healp you a little we have been try to get anuf money to gather for to yeard to repair out tharch it is in aveary bad conation.

your husban was so kind to us But he has gon to rest but his {kindness} we shal never for get

10c Miss {Sm Jones #5 ?}

Officers.

TRUSTEES. J. DUNLAP, PRESIDENT. H. TIBBS. J. HUGHES.

CLASS LEADERS. H. TIBBS. J. HUGHES.

STEWARDS. J. R. DORSEY. J. SORRET. J. HUGHES. J. GILES. R. WRIGHT.

STEWARDESSES. MRS. COGER. PRESIDENT. MRS. BOOTH. MRS. NOBLE. MRS. COVINGTON. MRS. HUGHES. MRS. FLETCHER. MRS. BIRD. MRS. GILES. MRS. WASHINGTON.

CHORISTER. MRS. DYER.

ORGANIST. W. PAGE.

J. L. Witten, Pastor.

The bearer of this little booklet Mrs Hannah Booth

is authorized to ask you for any sum of money you may give to the

A. M. E. Church, Sacramento,

for the purpose named below.

Papering and carpeting church

Please write your name in column amount given.

Springfield Ohio Dec 12th 1901

Mrs Leland Stanford San Francisco, Cal.

Dear Friend

You will think strange of receiving this letter from a stranger. If we could meet we would not be strangers, for I have heard of your kind heart and have often wished to see you.

I hope this letter will reach you and that I may hear from you, Dear Mrs Stanford I have a very very sick husband, just on the verge of a collapse, caused from financial trouble by helping others, now will you please help me to save him just by a small loan to tide things over as he is now helpless, and I am doing everything I can to hold our property which I can do with a little help, in this way I can save everything, and that will