Correspondence (incoming): begging letters, C

#6?8 Euclid Avenue Syracuse Dec 15 1901

My dear Mrs Stanford

Should the Secretary open this letter will he kindly hand it to Mrs Stanford to read. Having heard of your magnamious benefactions and of your lovely character, I venture to address you in behalf of my extreme need. When I tell you of the sad life I have experienced

you will surely pitty [sic] me, if not assist me, in my perplexed situation. Sometimes I feel my sorrow is more than I can bare [sic], I lost my oldest son soon after he was graduated from Yale College. He was a very promising young man. Soon after I was called to mourn the death of my dear husband. Lately my youngest & only son died which left me brokenhearted & crushed. Life is very dark to me, I am over 70 years old. I have climbed the hill of life and on looking backward

Baltimore Dec 12, 1901

Mrs. Stanford:

Reading the daily papers of the city I find that you take a great interest in the education of our American Boys. I will ask you to please be so kind and help me along. I am now a student of the high school and will graduate in 1904. As I am poor and not able to go to a University I will have to go to work. If you would please be so kind and give me something that would enable me to continue my education I think it will not be wasted if you will please do me this favor. You will here find inclosed [sic] a recommedation [sic] from one of my teachers. I can furnish many more.

Yours truly Robert Cherry 1509 Montrose St Baltimore, Md.

Mrs Jane L Stanford My Dear Madam

Noticing your munificences toward institutions of learning leads me to suppose that you have found some truth, else you would not be so impelled, is such the case?

I am not seeking riches, but I long for wisdom & will reach anywhere for it; hence send you this card.

Yours in Truth

H C Clay

MAN'S PRIMEVAL ENDOWMENT IS TRUTH.

Man, as a body, is born of the water, and the blood, with no conscious consciousness of its being.

He becomes a living soul, or separated entity, when the body breathes the breath of life (the atmosphere) immediately upon, or after, its birth, or separation from its mother, and not before.

The body and soul can, and may be destroyed.

Man as a body, with a soul, is possessed of an inherent aptitude for TRUTH and innocence, and to draw, as a capillary, that quality of being, from THAT SOURCE of LIFE, "Who only hath Immortality," which, as by gestation, will develop, by a specific change, or resurrection of the dead, into the birth (as actual as is that of the body, and not otherwise) of a conscious life, or Spirit, that can never die. This being of the second birth, is subject, in no sense, to blood or other material environments, its continuity existing upon a coercive moving plane, of intellectual being in proportion as the conscientious optional development of the soul, may have justified the righteousness of its life, or spirit gestation, unto perfectness, such as is that of The Absolute of Justice, which is THAT SOURCE of LIFE.

Every act, whether with good or evil intent, is certain to be followed now, and during all eternity, by its sequent result, for as man's primeval endowment is TRUTH, he must perforce be subject to TRUTH'S equities; so that joy or sorrow, contentment or distress, and gratification or regret, is but the sequence of an { ?} in full accord, with the natural tendency of the fulfillment of The Eternal Law, viz.; that Absolute Justice must be rendered unto The Whole Truth. It is the sequence of the act, not punishment, that follows, for man cannot in the least degree, infract The Law; it is inviolable, inexorable, and immutably fixed by its FRAMER,THE ABSOLUTE of JUSTICE, The Intellectual UNITY, ALMIGHTY GOD, Creator of all that Was, Is and Shall be Evermore.

I am sending several thousands of these cards throughout the country. Will you kindly send me your honest criticism of the above hypothesis? My only motive is to find the Truth. Is this it? prima facie. H. CLAY, Fernwood, Delaware Co., Penna.

with an administrator on each estate. out of plenty we were left without anything. I went West, got a position in a leity school as teacher more if you wish.

Youngest Sister could help in a Private School or Kindergarten. With music & she is so anxious to see & hear or touch a string piano. You know of it.

We have gotten in the { ?} town & because of no money cannot get out. I really believe that you will feel we need your encouragement & sympathy by start them in a school somewhere. Will be a Star in your great noble mind & heart. I am anxious to do more in the world. I would like to go to some Eastern {Kindy ?} & get last new ideas in general work.

I will stop perhaps some good Angel will help us. This is terrible cold weather.

I must close hoping I hear from you at your earliest decision.

I will be so pleased if you decide to listen too & write me for farther acquaintance. I know you will like my Sisters they are smart women.

I am so cold I cannot write more. please excuse mistakes Yours Truly

Miss A E. Clark in C A Ohio