Correspondence (incoming): begging letters, H

Jan 3rd 19

Mrs Jane L Stanford. Dear Madam

Seeing by the paper you was so wealthly and charitable would you think it imprudent of me to ask you for a little help as I have nothing but what I work for I hav three children to support I would like to buy the place where I live it can be bought for $4.000 has [?] land and a mill on it.

Riverside, Calif. ,

Mrs J.L. Stanford;Dear Madame,

Please pardon me for writing a letter of this kind. I have been driven to it by illness, which caused me to loose [sic] all I had, and am left penniless and should be under a physicians care if I had the means.

My profession is civil engineering but am unable to work at it.

So I appeal to you with a prayer to God hoping to hear from you. Pardon me for asking this favor.

Respectfully yours Fred W Hartung, 844 Orange St,

North Guilford; Conn Dec 31, 1901

Dear Madam,

As this is the first time I have ever asked alms I hardly know how to begin, I am the mother of three little boys the oldest less than five the youngest six months old, and my health is so miserable and I cannot work scarcely any, and I grow weaker all the time, and have no money

we have a large doctors bill now, and we find we cannot make both ends meet, so I appeal to you, a stranger for help. Very respectfully yours

Mrs. Herbert O. Hall. R.R. No 2. Guilford, Conn.

to get any medicine and when I saw an account of your giving $30.000000 to a college I thought I would state my case to you and see if you could spare me $10.00 (ten dollars) to get some of Dr Pierces medicines, half a dozen bottles of Golden Discovery and the same of Favorite Prescription. The medicine would be as acceptable as the money. I would never have written this but I do not know how I shall ever get better, or what I shall do if I do not get better, on account of my babies.

My husband works very hard for small wages in the country and

1828 [Bruvier?] St. Philadelphia. Pa.

Dec 30/01

Dear Mrs Stanford

It occured to me that [?] you might feel interested in develop -ing a special line of Art Industry used extensively in churches & residences viz Art Glass and memorial figure painting and desigining in fact completing the whole work ready for use. The same as executed & taught in South Kensi -ington Museum. London also at the manual training school of the Drexel Institute Phila. Should this interest you I will be pleased to offer my services to develop