Correspondence (incoming): begging letters, Sl-Sw

I wish no one to think me a beggar nor know of this.

Please let me hear from you soon and if you can send the money send it in a registered letter

Humbly Nettie E. Smith

Address Nettie E. Smith Comanche Texas

Bennadette {?} Minn December 15 1901

Mrs Jane L Stanford Dear Madam

Excuse me for bothering you with my letter, but I have seen in the English daily papers about all your kind gifts to the University in California. Then I thought of asking you for a little help I am a young girl 25 years old and I am a cripple since 8 months ago I cant walk or do any thing for my living and I am a poor working girl my friends have done much for me but it seems so hard to ask other pfeople for everything when I cant pay them any thing for it. I had a poor brother he was a cripple for 15 years then Death set him free, and it will be my faith to if nothing can be found to cure me. My address is Louise Smedberg Bernadette POB Nicollet Co. Minn

ago, he is (and always was) a strictly sober, moral man, as to his honesty and integrity, he has worked him-self up, from $3.00 a week to $3.00 a day, and is still with the same firm, for which he has worked for the past twenty seven yrs. I want the money to buy us a little home with. Mr. Smith has very little or no education to speak of, and it makes him all the more ambitious for our five children, and they are just as anxious to be the first in their class as we are to have them. My health has been very poor, for the past for[sic] years, on account of the

downfall of my favorite, youngest sister, we rescued her from eternal ruin, and her betrayer married her, but I know of the disgrace and sin, and only my faith in God keeps me up at all, although I do my own work I'm not able to be out of bed half the time. I am so anxious to do what little I can to help get along, and it takes every cent of the hard earned $78.00 per month with close economy to keep straight. I hope you will find time to read this over, and just think what the loan of $1,000 would do towards lightening the load of as true a christian as ever

Macon Ga Dec. 11th 1901

Mrs. Stanford Madam

No doubt you will consider this epistle imprudent, but I am going to ask a loan $1000 (one thousand dollars) for five years. My husband is an orphan boy, who took care of his mother and the four other children, after his mother's death, and the children were all grown and married, except one sister, he and I were married nearly sixteen years

lived. Mr. Smith does not know of this letter at all, and I do hope and pray that I can surprise him. If you will loan, I'll have every thing mortgaged to you until we pay back with interest, as well as blessings the rest of your days. I can refer you to our best men,

Rev. Dr. J. L. White, Judge John P. Ross, Capt E. J. Mallory, Judge J. L. Hardeman

Hoping and praying for a favorable answer.

I am J. Lonla Smith (Mrs. C. D. Smith) 912 Plum St.

did it because my brother lent me money. That I might pay it back, I taught two years before taking any other training.

This last September, I entered the Normal School with money for a half year. Now, I still am not content but want the whole year's work. My brother died last spring leaving me with no one to whom I can go. I do not wish to be dependent upon any one; but would it be

too much to ask that I have $100. if I promise that, as soon as I am "straight" again, I will look up some one working for an education and pass it on, taking a similar promise.

Yours truly Ina Smith