Correspondence (incoming): begging letters, T

Anything you would wish to know I will take great deal of pleasure in telling you. If I hear from you then will send you Mary Hunter's picture & mine if you would like to see them. My ancestors were & are as good as can be found in the State of Virginia. Any thing you may feel disposed to give will be very gratefully received & God will bless those who help the poor & needy. Hoping you will find it in your generous heart to answer my letter if no more. Please pray for me & my success. Excuse writing as my eyes are so weak & my glasses dont suit me now.

Yours most truly Mrs. Luba H. Tatum

Dec 10, 1901.

Dear Lady:

I've save $50 in my life-time. Now called an old maid won't you invest it for me so when too old to work it will buy me a little house! Hoping you will do this for me and be richly rewarded. I am

Yours sincerely Annie Taylor W. Main St. Columbus, [O.?]

P.S. Know you would not publish me for asking this favor.

[pre-printed] F. A. ADAMS, Real Estate and Insurance. Low Rate Farm Loans a Specialty. Write to me. Kirksville, Mo. [/pre-printed] Dec10 [pre-printed 190[--0--]. [/pre-printed]

Mrs. Jane Stanford, San Francisco Cal

Dear Friend

While I am not personaly acquainted with you, I have heard of your noble and generous help, in the way of gifts to institutions that were financially embarised. Our church here is in just that condition now There is a debt of eight - thousand dollars against the church, and with almost a total failure of all farm products here this year we have not been able to rais enuff money to pay the interest on the debt, the holder of the mortgage thretens forclosure, if the interest with a part of the principle is not paid by Jan 1. with the present outlook having nuthing to sell, and winter upon us, with not muck work to be had, it will be impossible to raise all of the interest that is due, so I thought perhaps you might be willing to help this church by a Christmas donation to the church to help out its finantial dificulty, as the Lord has blesed you in the past and will more abundently bless those that give to his cause for the salvation of his peaple, now Dear Sister take this to the Lord in prayer and what ever you may feel able to give will be used to pay the claims against this church

very Respt yours Rev R. L. Thompson Paster D. H. Nighswander Tres

Monroe St., Bay City, Michigan December the 11 1901

Mrs. Stanford,

Dear friend I think you must bee a Christin sister of mine. I know if you are a Christin that you will help your Christin sister [--has--] as I red in the Detroit Paper of your wonderfull gifts to the needy. I am one that have been pleding to god for help. I have been an invled for 24 years now am 45 my husband is 54 and he is cripled with rumetsam and menny times I have not the meanes to get my midsinns. I know that god will redward you. I am a [illegible] I pray that you will see this letter for I am so weak that I can carsley hold my pen.

I will clos with love and preyer to our god how ones all things. This is frome your Christin sister

Mrs Elizabeth Thompson

Forgive all matakes. Good by.