LETTERS: Two Typed letters signed to Annie Fields.
(Fields, Annie.) Two Typed letters signed, “F.E. Hubbell,” to Annie Fields, June 4 and July 1, 1907, on three leaves of letterhead of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.
Two letters to Fields concerning her solicitation for charitable assistance regarding the case of a woman named Margaret Kelly:
. . . I found her living as you stated in a very uncomfortable room, and I felt a delicacy about questioning her closely . . . as she is extremely reticent. I think she talked more freely to me than she does to most people but I feared to lose what confidence I had gained. . . . I tried to persuade her to put herself under a doctor's care as she has a cough and looks far from well. . . . I . . . offered to send her to a very lovely convalescent home in the country . . . where she could remain for several weeks and have the best of food and care. This offer she also refused stating that for the present at least she preferred to stay in New York and try to earn something. . . .
And:
. . . the Committee . . . are willing to allow her regularly at the rate of $10 a month. . . . I have been able to get her some work at sewing enabling her to earn in all about $9. . . . She has some fine traits, as you say, and it seems too bad she should have suffered for so long a time. . . .
Fields has docketed the later letter, “Do not return, dear Miss Bolger but I am sure you will be interested -- yours always A.F.”
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