Letter to Mary Hollingsworth from R. W. Mahan in Clinton, Kentucky, writing to reccommend W. A. Steinbeck as an adoptive father. Steinbeck is a Baptist farmer close to Bardwell, Kentucky in Carlisle County. His two daughters are married and he wants a little girl from ages ten to twelve. Mahan writes that a possible adoptive mother reccommended by Mahan in a previous letter, Mrs. Breakfield, failed to take the child.
J. H. Black, G. Dudley, Carlisle, R. W. Mahan write to the Home to recommend the Dillsons, Webbs, and Denaldsens to adopt children. They state that they are good Christians, would educate the children, provide for them, and bring them up "in good moral character." Letter marked Bardwell, KY. In a letter from 28 April 1893, J. B. Dillson writes to Weller to ask him to send papers for Bro. Donaldson "a girl of 6 or 8 years of age (apprentice)." He says they will want the children send together and he will meet them at Fulton KY. Letter also marked Bardwell, KY.