Letter to the Baptist Orphans Home from W. T. Gaines, June 22nd, 1909.

Gaines writes to the Home inquiring about getting a boy to raise/use as a farmhand. He says that he has a wife and two grown daughters, and would provide the boy "the same treatment that farmers usually give their sons, with about the same educational advantages." Handwritten, "Ans 6/28/09, none suitable, M. E. A." Letter marked New Castle, KY.

Manuscript Collection, The Filson Historical Society

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