J. S. Lowell to Mary J. C. Anderson, Dec. 6, 1871
- Title
- J. S. Lowell to Mary J. C. Anderson, Dec. 6, 1871
- Date
- 12-06-1871
- Creator
- J.S. Lowell
- Recipient
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Mary J.C. Anderson
- Description
- Response to Anderson's request for money to cover the cost of transportation for a new job in Shreveport, Louisiana. Lowell states that the Society will not provide funds for the trip to Louisiana, but does offer Anderson a job teaching at a local school.
- Related Financial Supporters
- New England Freedmen's Aid Society aka New England Branch of the American Freedmen's Union Commission
- Transcript
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Boston, December 6, 1871
My dear Miss Anderson:
I find your letter here explaining about Shreveport, but I do not advise your depending upon any promise of the legislature, unless you have the guarantee of some person whom you know, for, as a rule, these promises are not carried out and the larger they are the less likely they are to be kept.
I may, of course, be mistaken but I do not feel as if it would be any kindness to you to lend you the money to get down there. I have given $160 for you to the New England Soc. if you go back to Morgan Creek or to some other school near by. Of course you must begin school as early as January first or the salary cannot be paid you. If you go to Morgan Creek, I think you ought to go down to make arrangements about the fifteenth of this month. Transportation is included in the $160.
You must write at once you will do.
Truly yours,
J.S. Lowell
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