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Chicago Ill
Dec 11th 1901

Mrs Stanford.
Dear Madam.

Please do not cast this
letter aside until you have
at least read it. It is
a mothers appeal for a
sick child, and if you
would make a happy
Christmas for one poor sad
heart it is within your
power to do so. My daughter
19 years of age clerked in
Marshal Fields big retail store
down on State St until
last July she was taken
with Typhoid Feaver [sic] and