Correspondence (incoming): begging letters, C

until he or she experience it Mrs. Stanford as I said I am a stranger to you, but I believe a mother who trained and reared as noble a boy as you did Leland Stanford will read my letter and believe it to be from a truthful christian woman. I have four children, two girls and two boys. The girls are the oldest, the boys several years younger. The girls name are Flossye Stanford and Leland

make noble christian women out of them. I have both at college but will have to bring them home unless I get a little help. One wrote Xmas day and said she had prayed every night that she might be permitted to remain and say Mother write to dear Mrs Stanford, she gives so much for educational purposes and may be she would help to keep us at school, and we can teach and pay her

Dear Madam

I have so often read of you and your husband and the dear sweet boy you lost, in the papers magazines etc with so much interest, and read to my children about your son what a noble boy he was and what consolation it was to a mother to know she had raised such a boy to transplant in Heaven. You are a stranger personally to me, but I never see

{ ?} so hard this year, people have made no crops, and ladies who strive to make can't get much to do, for people are not able to have it (work) done as they have in the past. If you will help me with the girls while I am in this strait, give us time and we will refund it. I know six hundred dollars ($600.00) is a small amount to you, but it is a great one for me, and, oh the world of good it will be. This is my first and only letter of the kind

to me any way I would appreciate a letter from as good a lady as I look upon you as being. It might cheer my drooping spirits, we have both had our troubles and can sympathize with each other. Wishing you a Happy New Year.

I remain Yours Truly Mrs. Belle Canada

your name in print, that my heart does not go out to you in sympathy, for the lost loved one so dear. One has to be afflicted some early to keenly sympathize for one never knows sorrow { ?}.

{Lurline ?} your namesakes I admired you so much thought you so noble in every thing, I named my first born for you. I am striving every way possible to educate them to make { ?}

Independence, Miss Jan. 2, 1902

Mrs. Jane L. Stanford:

money back, when we get through, and maybe with her influence we can procure a good school. Times