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where some were carried from, to their last resting place. Well in an unlucky moment my husband started an enterprise thought to be of financial benefit: but proved a failure, others benefited however, and now in our old age (I nearing 55 my husband over 60) we find ourselves stranded this last year. The drought took everything and we have been unable to pay the int[erest] on the mortgage against our home. Oh can I tell you of the weary days & sleepless nights spent in trying to devise plans or means to enable us to retain our little home of only 40 acres; for I

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know that if our home goes our lives go with it. Old trees transplan[ted] seldom ever live and so I believe it is with us. my husband works beyond his strength and when I note the feeble steps once so buoyant, & the once bright eyes dim with unshed tears my heart fails one and in agony I cry to God for help. our debt of $1500 (fifteen hundred) is due this spring and I write to ask of your aid, if in any way you can help us and that we can, in time repay you. Oh how our prayers will ascend to God in your behalf that His choicest blessings may be yours. I have never

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asked help of any one before and would not now could I see any way open for us. My husband does not know of my intention to write you so I alone must bear the disappointment if you refuse. The amt is but little to you but Oh so much to us, and if you can help us you know Christ said "Inasmuch as did it unto one of the least of these ye did it unto me." Oh my sister woman may God in His infinite mercy so influence your mind in my behalf that out of your abundance you may help in my great need, and whenever we bow at the Throne of {grace?} we will bear your name

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in our petitions that God will grant you a long life in which to do His will & help those less fortunate than yourself for I believe the prayers of a faithful few is more to be desired than the plaudits of the multitude.

Hoping you will not be too busy to read this and praying your help in some way I subscribe my { ?} prayerfully

Mrs Mary L Ewing Davis City, Iowa Decatur Co

Box 165

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Moscow, { ?} 14/27 November 1901

Very Honoured Miss!

On the first place I must offer you my apologies for the liberty of addressing myself to you, not having the honour of knowing you personnally [sic], for which I beg you graciously to pardon me.

I would beg you to imagine the following situation; A young man at a very early age, feeling himself called to a scientific career endowed with an ardent striving for the interests of knowledge, arrived at the necessarily fixed persuasion that an answering following up of the intense desisre in his nature for intellectual work, alone could give a meaning to his existence. At that moment he understood his vocation. His interior enlightenment, however, on the question of his self determination was far from being in accord with the exterior conditions of his life. In his eighteenth year he lost his father, and this meant that to his share now fell the sollicitude for his family. From this year he maintained a difficult struggle against want and deprivation, with contradictions arising from his broad ideals of concentrated scientific labours, and the absolute impossibility on account of his external circumstances,

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