Correspondence (incoming): De - Di, 1888-1902

see some photographs of A. T. Stewart's beautiful Cathedral and School building at Garden City where I used to live. I send you herewith, pictures showing the exterior and interior of the Cathedral, and one of St. Paul's School. These two beautiful buildings and also a fine brick mansion for the Bishop and a large School building for young ladies, were built and donated to the Diocese of Long Island by Alexander T. Stewart of New York. My Papa made the pictures.

Please do not be offended at my writing to you and sending these pictures. My Papa and Mamma often talk of moving to California, and if we do, I shall try to find you and call to see you when you are not busy.

Now I will say good bye, with my best wishes. I live at No. 801 East Capital St. and if you should find time to write a few lines to me, please direct it to that address.

From Your Friend,

Ada E. DeMott.

New York 22 East 45th Street

My dear Mr Stanford

I dislike very much to intrude a begging letter upon a friend, especially to call upon the sympathy & kindly nature of those like yourself and Mrs. Stanford to whom such appeals are made from every direction. This is a penalty attached not only to the possession of great wealth but also to the well known fact of your constant generous benevolence.

A few physicians, on the Medical Staff of the Hahnemann Hospital of New York, are also professsors in a small College in 23rd St. They & their wives have been misrepresenting the work done by the Hahnemann Hospital & by this

means hoping to enlist the interest of the public in a scheme of their own. Their sympathies have not been with the sick & suffering. They have resented the wise discipline of our Board of Trustees and started a new organization. I make this short explanation lest their misrepresentations may reach & mislead you. By the enclosed circular you will understand our financial erudition, besides our five endowed beds, Memorial gifts, we have $30,000 invested in. We have free beds in our various wards for adults & childrens, a ward with 3 endowed beds for sick saleswomen, a room with three endowed beds for sick Policemen & a number of private rooms for strangers, who may be taken ill & also for those living elsewhere who need surgical treatment which can only be obtained in large cities.

I regret that our Annual Reports are exhausted, however I will send you a copy of an old one, of which issue, possessing as it did, a special interest for our family. I had at that time a large number printed.

A few years since we received a small amount from the Excise Fund, but now I believe this is all absorbed by Roman Catholic Charities, from Saturday & Sunday also we receive annually, a few hundred dollars, but with this exception, our dependance for current expenses is on the voluntary contributions of our friends.

The necessity for a Maternity Building is great, the constant application for such cases requiring immediate care is far greater than any one can imagine & altho much has been done for such sufferers, there is no-

where sufficient accomodations for them, for this work an isolated building is necessary & our beautiful plot of ground furnishes ample space. To build this & endow the beds, we need $100,000 to $150,000. Will you not built or help to build as monument to your generosity on the Atlantic Coast, which will make your name known as well here as on the Pacific Slope?

With kind regards, I am Yours Sincerely Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew

February 21st. 1888.

Eskeridge Kas Aug 21st 1895

Mrs Jane. L. Stanford San Francisco Cal

Dear Mrs. Stanford

Will you permitt [sic] me to extend to you my congratulations on your success in gaining your suit against the U.S. in which you had so much at stake

Permitt [sic] me to say to you that I am a deaf mute girl of 28 years old my Father is now in his 65 year and Mother is in her 64. I am very lonesome and I like to have letters to read from partys [sic] at a distance

I hope you will be kind enought [sic] to write me and I will send you my picture.

Yours very respectfully M. A. Dickey