Correspondence (incoming): begging letters, F

If you decide to help me could you do it before Xmas as he is talking of going away for he thinks there is no use of thinking of going to school He is going next day after Xmas Oh what a happy Xmas it would be for him if I could have to tell him he could go to school & could assist him I do not know what he would think if he knew I wrote you We hope to hear from you soon I remain yours truly

Mrs Emma Fritz Carthage N.Y. Jeff Co. Carthage Dec 16th 1901 Mrs Stanford I thought I would write you and see if you would assist me a little individually My boy wants to be a civil engineer he has been studying with a correspondence school but if he had a little money he would like to take a course of study of course we are not able to help him financially very much he thought if he had a hundred dollars with what he could help

Morristown, Jan 14th 1902 Mrs Jane L. Stanford. Kind madam. Home Nob Hill San Francisco, California Esteemed Lady. Read in the paper i.e. Comfort; of your great wealth and large charitable donation to great Institution of Learning. And address you this morning asking if your kind heart & benevolent actions can reach down to help me some if ever so little it will help me and if a good sum will do me good

Have been a widow 14 yrs am 66 yrs old and greatly afflicted with paralysis Cant perform much work but can and do teach a score or more little children who come to my humble home. If you can and will assist me Will ever pray for God richest blessings to ever be over and attend you and those who are dear to you by the ties of Nature in writing to me Address Mrs. Mary L. Franklin Morristown Hamblin Co E st, Tenn.

Lake Charles La. Dec 19th 1901 To Mrs Jane L. Stanford, I hope you will not call it presumption in me to thus address you without permission. To be brief with this and what I do wish to say is to ask you to please help me get a home. I am a widow with four daughters, and we certainly have a hard time trying to make a living, for rents eat up what little profit we might make, our livelihood is keeping boarders and "a Home" would mean two

things with us; a place to live and a way to make a living. My husband was a country merchant and when he died his creditors took everything, leaving me without a home and with our little ones to support and educate So a living has been more of a struggle than otherwise. I can give good references to the truth of what I say. I hope you will answer this with an answer of peace and say "yes. I'll [have ?] the five thousand to give her a home and a living. May you always be prosperous, your path strewn with flowers - each bud opening to some new happiness lying in wait for your