Meal	.50
Salts	.10
Laudanum	.25
Meat1	1.00
Express1	.50
Shoes3	2.00
Cleaning House 4	.50
Washing5	.25
Transportation	.75
Express	.25
Meat	.25
Bread7	.25
Doctor8	1.75
Rice	.25
Eggs for Benj7	.35
Daily milk for do. 10 dz	.50
Ex. Ginger10	.75
Turpentine for child.	.5
" " children	.10
Oil	.25

 

[Note in margin, probably by corresponding secretary of sponsoring agency:]

The paper cut off has Miss Chase's receipt from our Treasurers of Ten dollars--she goes on to show how it was spent.

[Note in other margin, written by Sarah:]

Home for aged and indigent is established--but we have much trouble in securing suitable [?].

The money met absolute need of people who had nowhere to look for money. 1. A worn, weary woman with 11 children, and another, with three, came in one night from ten days in the woods; coming away from the plantation. "We was driv off,

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Misses, kase wese no account with our childer." $1. made a nourishing soup for the party for one day & a good meat dinner for the next. 2. Carried a woman with her children & "pack" to the hospital. 3. enabled an old rheumatic man, to "get about a little to pick up jobs to earn a little to keep his old body alive—" he could not step on the ground without shoes, & was wholly dependent on others—while with them he takes care of himself. 4 & 5 purifications after Small Pox, for a very old woman & a blind man. 6 sent an old man, who could do nothing for himself, to his friends who will take care of him as long as he lives. 7 furnished three loaves to a sick woman with young children—whose husband finds himself free to run away from home and its duties. 8 sent a Dr. to an intense sufferer and to an old man who thought he could "knock about and get his food for the chores he could do when he got about." Both should have had attention long before,

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but could not afford it. 9 Poor Ben is released from his suffering, which has confined him for three yrs. to his bed. Always gentle and patient, never blaming his hard master for over straining him as a dray man: after having been told by the Dr., "You'd better not let your smart little dray man lift so much alone—or you'll lose him." 10th has relieved many violent attacks among the old and poor people—curing some cases where "Missus allers use to give me whisky when I was so"—(I can give no spirits).

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I was interrupted at paragraph by sickness--and it has been utterly impossible to resume till May 21st, though I have only lost two hours work myself.--I left the letter for school; and after the school was fairly opened my sister was taken suddenly ill--before she got home I was taken in the same way and my assistant at the same time--I was all right--the next morning--but my sister has been confined to her bed until today when she will return to school--my assistant--though not as ill as my sister--has also been away from school--so the labor of three has fallen on me--School, visiting the sick and needy, writing many letters and attending to the throngs of callers has delayed the forwarding

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of this memoranda. Your last letter has been stolen together with a box of valuables so I cannot refer to it--I know not if you fully understand my "white" position—though I think you do. I may not have made one point as clear as I meant to. My objection was to organizing for the whites and then taking in the blacks. I have always attempted to get whites into our schools : We have 7 now—they are the minority & harmonize well with the blacks The same no. of blacks could not go to a white school.

We are so much engaged and interested —I cannot bear to think of having to leave and wish heartily that it was Fall instead of Summer. I would stay through the Summer were it not that the climate deprives a Northerner of strength and its no use being here if I cannot do anything. I believe we are to go home the 1st of July. The Drs. here say we ought not to risk staying later than June & would not dare assume the responsibility of allowing it. Lucy is just recovering from a Georgia fever, wh. brought her very low but our life is so temperate and interesting we quickly recover.

I must tell you again how wonderfully useful your woolen bbl has been. Many times a week I exclaim—"Nothing could be more pat." I cut every garment myself, that the clothing may not be wasted : & I am sure every yard will tell in lasting comfort—improved health & I have no doubt—in saving life also. With ever best wishes I must leave you for the throng at the door & at my elbow.

S.E.C.

A friend has sent my sister a very large check so we shall need no more money. I speak of Alabama—because across the river within 1/3 mile there are many people exceedingly poor—who have no friends white or black, are worse off than the people on this side & we do what we can for them.

 

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