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July 14, 1939.
[printed letterhead: 430 EAST EIGHTY-SIXTH STREET NEW YORK CITY]
Dear Judge Bartlett:
In order to identify myself I was Alice Battson. You always told me when I was a little girl that I could come to you when and if I was ever in trouble.
I'm taking you up on that in hopes you still feel the same way.
I have been separated from Frank Baker for the
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past two and a half years and as neither of us have any money I couldn't get out to you. Things have dragged on for so long that we are both about to loose our minds and have decided if I can get a divorce cheaply enough we will even go so far as to borrow the money. In other words I have no complications as far as it being contested or anything like that.
You see Daddy has taken the attitude I got myself
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into this mess now it is up to me to get out. Frank hasn't even a job and I am on such a small allowance that the thing looks almost hopeless. Mother and my step father are down and out so they can't help.
I hate to bother you with all my woes but I'm really frantic. If I can swing it would you handle the case for me and write me at your earliest convenience as to what the costs would be, both for yourself and Frank's attorney. Someone told me there is also a Court charge. Is that true?
Again imposing upon your good nature if you can think of a place for me to live and the approximate rate I would be terribly grateful.
Please forgive me for dumping all of this into your lap and please write to me very soon --
Affectionately
Alice Baker.
