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at 183 South Park St. at the home of W. S. Davidson, where for months it was cared for. In the interval the true mother was consigned to the Nova Scotia Hospital, and the whole story is a chapter in which are curiously combined the beautiful, the horrible and and the gruesome.

Allow me to apologize for my lengthy letter, and if in any way and memory may serve you, I shall consider it my privilege to assist.

I beg to remain
Respectfully yours,
Sister Maria Cecilia

Monday, June 10, 1918

[handwritten in pencil top right: MG 1 vol 2124 number 52 b]