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Lebanon Ind 12.17 Mrs. Stanford

Dear madam No doubt you wil be
sirprised to get a letter from an entire stranger
and I beg yore pordin for interrupting you
and at the same time I the excuse I can
offer is that I read so mutch abt yore
good and charitable qualities that I was
tempted to writ to yu asking if yu wood
Be so good as to spare me a smal
amount from yore grate abundance it
is the first time that I ever asked help
my husband is an invalid and we
have spent the accumulation of our
younger days in doctoring him I can
make a good living in a Boarding
here if I had but a few hundred