Correspondence (incoming): begging letters, Sa-Si

Mt. Carmel Conv Thibodeaux, La. 12/10 - 1901 Mrs Jane L. Stanford. We read on the Picayune of your generosity to different institutions, we decided to ask you to please assist us a little - our Conv is heavily in debt, any donation will be very much appreciated, to try to aid us in this pressing need, we will ask the Sacred Heart to shower down abundant graces on you, hoping to hear from you soon. Sisters of Mt. Carmel.

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Mrs Jane L. Stanford,

Dear Madam,

Pardon, we beg you the liberty we have taken in addressing you, but the great troubles that have surrounded us for the past ten years, & which culminated in the loss of our home, must plead our excuse. In our poverty we are now struggling to secure a home of our own & appeal

to your generous heart to aid us in our efforts to obtain it. What would seem a mite to you, would do us O so much good and our daily earnest prayers would ascend to Heaven in your behalf. Any inquiry addressed to our Most Rev Archbishop P. A. Feehon of Chicago, the Jesuits Fathers, or our resident pastor Very Rev H. P. Smyth will receive a prompt response. Hoping for a favorable reply & wishing

your every blessing.

Sincerely & cordially,

The Sisters of the Visitation

Ridge Avenue & Lenard Place

Evanston Ill.

Dec sixteenth, nineteen hundred and one

120 b East Duffy St. Savannah. Georgia

Dec 15th 1901.

Dear Mrs Stanford,

Tis many a long & sad year, no doubt to both of us since I met your noble Husband in Washington where I went to try and get work to aid my little Grandaughter & myself. he kindly promised to aid me, but I was called south on account of the illness of my son, and about that time sorrow & trouble darkened your heart & home. we both were called appon [upon] to give up one dearer to us than life, and since then I was thrown