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[inverted text] Mrs Mary A Martin 924 N Jameson st.

Lebanon Boone Co Ind [/inverted text]

Dollars to start with I cannot start my self but more then willing to work I have 2 little girls one 14 years old and the other one 9 they are both in school and I want to keep them their if I posibly can now if this meets with favor from you wil thankfuly take what you see fit To give as I want to go into Business The first of the year and if yu wil help me I wil let you know twice per year how I am getting along. I am 44 years old and an honest woman and and strictly honorble in I respects if they find favor in your site I wil expect a speedy reply and wil sign my self very truly yours Mrs Mary A Martin

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

Dicember 23 1901 C. Marro New Castle Wash, Mrs. Jane L. Stanford

Signora mi sasseva Ti questa mia debulezia vol premdermi la liberta di scriviersci questi due sirri. In questi temppi [tempi] chi sa, quanti che di essa sarranno Caritenti della una sempre bene valenze e sol, tante Carito, Io e mia figlia annii fa, che alla porta errancanno in San Francisco, alla sua residenza, valleva a farcisse parte delle mie affizione

Mrs. C Marra Seatle Wash ker of Lucy Gall No 309 Seneca St. Seatle, Wash