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862 South Street,
Roslindale, Boston, Mass.

28th March, 1921.

Miss Alice C. Fletcher,
Cambridge, Mass.
My dear Miss Fletcher;

You knew and honored Dr. Alexander F. Chamberlain. You will be interested, I am sure, in the brave and determined effort his daughter, Ruth, is making to obtain a college education. Ruth, who did not go to school until after her father's death, prepared for Brookline High School in one year. After graduating there, she went to Grinnell College. She is now in her second year, and is planning to take her degree next year.

As Dr. Chamberlain had taught only nineteen years his wife did not obtain a Carnegie pension and is dependent entirely upon her own earnings for a living. Ruth has been partially working her way through college; but her plan to graduate in three years, which she can easily do, as she has inherited a good share of her father's intellectual ability, makes outside work too great a burden. Even if she did out-side work and took four years to graduate, the burden upon Mrs. Chamberlain would be too great.

I am therefore asking the friends of Dr. Chamberlain to show their appreciation of him and his work by helping his daughter. I am hoping that the sum of five hundred dollars can be raised for this purpose.

In order that you may know who is making this appeal, I may say that Dr. Chamberlain was a member of my church in Worcester during the eight years I was minister there. I am now minister of the Roslindale Unitarian Church in Boston.

I know the hard fight that Mrs. Chamberlain has made since the death of her husband and know how great sacrifices she is making to keep Ruth in college. It has seemed to her that she would not be able to continue. But I assured her that the friends of Dr. Chamberlain would be more than glad to assist Ruth not as a charity but as a joyful expression of their appreciation of his noble and useful life.

Checks may be sent to me. I shall acknowledge their receipt and shall make a final report to all donors.
I am

Very respectfully yours,
^[[Arthur L. Weatherly,]]