
i
write to tell
you that janey maquire
that is
nanc brothers wife has been
here and tells me awfull things
of the wreched creature she has
had twins one is dead the other is living
and the children is sent out to beg
by the day and her brother the one to the
court house wants to get the 3 children
away from her and have them put
in some institution) what i want
you to doo Walter dear is this
to write a letter to James Cornell
for him to intercede in getting
them from her she drinks and every
thing else thats bad)
tell justice cornell
for Andrew s sake
for heavens s sake
to doo what he can) i wish you would
say to him that the home of the friendless
in new york
is a good institution
half orphan children can be got in
there without pay) janey says if they are
put in the brooklyn institution they have
to pay something that eddward maquire
that is the wretches brother will pay
for two if we will pay for one
but they i think if the proper way it
taken can be got in new york
she said she couldent tell me
how bad things were that if the children
can be got away from her they
never will countenance her
she said her brother Jim that is
another brother of nancee would
have shot her he was so inbitter
Edwar
is the one with one arm
keeps the new court house
and
his wife Janey said to day it affected
him so that it made him sick
the money you left for the children
and her we could never find
her Edd
went to look for her and she
had mooved)
i told Janey to day
about the money and for her to take
it and get something for them she said
she would come here again soon that it
was no use to get any thing now nance pawns
every thing i hope you will write to cornell walter
i am midling well only lame
the maquires is very respectable men