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try to get them to try to go
there too. I red [sic] where
you lost your only child
at the age of fourteen
just the age of our baby
girl if she were living.
She was an invalid for
seven months with diabetes
& such a suffer she was. I
thought it would kill me to see
her suffer. My friend I
hope I have not tired or
worried you with this
letter. I hope you will
see proper to aid me
at this time of great distress.

Your admirer, Mrs Scott Carter
Chatham, Va

Chatham Feb 1/1901

Mrs Leland Stanford

Dear Madam,

I have just red in one
of the late magazines a
friend lent me of your
great wealth & of your
generosity. I thought I
would write to you in my
great distress. We just
burried [sic] my mother three
weeks ago, the third one
of our family to die in
sixteen months. I had
only three children two
girls & a boy. God in his
wisdom took both of my
girls in eleven months they