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Mrs Geo. W. L Hatch
Taunton Mass 12 12 1901
187 Highland St

My Dear Ms Stanford

I have read many times of the great &
good work you have done are doing and
have been told of it by people I have met from
your vicinity and I am sure you must feel
that you are and will be wounderfully blest
there must be a crown awaiting you and
surely loved one's for I have heard of your first
great loss and then another and no doubt
more, yet it is strangely hidden from us and
we are permited to bear such burdens but I
feel sure the great and good Lord is watching
over us all the time and it is his will but we
are hard to see it so many times, as I was
reading the enclosed clipping in our daily Paper
last evening the thought came to me now
no doubt She haves 1000 of beging letters imposters
and all kinds, but perhaps if I write I can tell
her some of my troubles and she may take
some interest in me. I wish I could assure you in the
first place I am no crank no imposter and am just
simply writing to you as one friend in trouble would
write another but if you were never in moderate or straightened