Letter to the Baptist Orphans Home from J. T. Cook, August 21st, 1897.

J. T. Cook writes to the Home on behalf of Mrs. Alice Smith, a widow of a year with two little children aged 4 and 6, one boy and one girl. Cook says that Smith has been supporting the children via hard labor and "she is not strong enough to really work at all." He says that her husband's family will not help with the children at all and she wants to place them in the Home. Weller writes at the bottom "usual recommendations" Aug 28/97. Letter marked Crofton, KY.

Manuscript Collection, The Filson Historical Society

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