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and teach all branches of the business at the Institution which bears your sons name.

My experience in this line is upward of 30 years here and in Europe and should you require testimo -nials to ability & I can refer you to secveral on the Pacific coast - which you may know.

Anticipating the favor of your reply & consideration.

Believe me Dear Madam Yours Very Respectfully

Wm. H. Haywood

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Murphysboro, Ill. New Year Day. 1902

Mrs. Stanford. Dear Madam,

Years ago I read an article in a Magazine "How a Boy built a College." It was the story of your own little boy. The Magazine also had his picture, and from the time I first looked on his sweet young face till now, I have read with great interest all that is reported of your benevolences. And I am sure you do much aside from these, and I write to ask if you can do us the very great favor

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of helping us out in our lecture course.

We live in a mining town and are trying to keep up a course of six good lectures during the winter. This winter it has been hard for us to sell tickets and we fear we shall be left in debt and that will mean no lectures next year. Our minister is the principal one on the committee and he is far from able to make up any deficiency. None of use are well off financially. If you can give us eighty dollars, it will assure us for this year and encourage us for the next year.

Dear Mrs. Stanford this letter goes to you with prayers that you will read it yourself and that you may be inclined to grant us the request. These lectures mean much to our communnity. No one knows I am writing to you, and if you send us the money it will be a glad surprise to the committee. I can refer you to our pastor, Rev. J.S. Martin (Pres.) and to Mr. Willard Wall cashier First Nat. bank of this town.

Very Truly Yours, Mrs. S.C. Hanson 20e N. 14th St.

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it imposssible to obtain private teaching in consequence of the numerous conservatoires and my acquaintances have not the power to aid me - I am now quite recovered in health and if some tried friend would help me to take a ten roomed house and furnish it I could let furnished apartments in one of the refined watering places --

I am thoroughly capable and energetic and a total abstainer and early riser - I am also a composer of songs and my first buplished song (Eternal Spring) is copyrighted in America (Novello [?] Emer & Coy: New York) the song

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Madame

Will you permit me to offer you my most profound apology for addressing you.

I am the widow of a Surgeon - and daughter of the late Mr John Sinclair of the British Linen Cos: Bank Edinburgh My husband died three years after our marriage and a few years ago I

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lost my beloved only son and only child just as he was opening into manhood - a lawsuit some years ago deprived me at once of my sole income

My beloved son who was my all in all took typhoid fever - the Doctors advising an Ocean voyage as the only chance for his life - we embarked for Australia but when he had been six weeks at sea he passed to the higher life - and was buried at sea. Why I am alive after all sunshine left my life I know not-

I took a serious illness and when I was able to be up - I became a teacher of singing having been trained in Italy - I got many pupils - and worked on unaided for fifteen years - but insomnia brought on again a severe illness - and I had to come home - I have alas! over and over again starved in England - finding

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