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To whom it may concern:

This is to introduce Dr. Matilda A. Evans of Columbia, S.C. It pleases me to be able to say of her, that she is the best educated and most intelligent member of her race I have ever known. I have known her here at Columbia, S.C. for several years past and I have had the opportunity to judge of her both as a physician and as a business manager of a hospital for colored people. She has financed her hospital amid great difficulties, her people being poor and her white friends of limited means. She has however, the confidence of the community and the best wishes of the white people here. All of the white physicians of our city patronize her institution, sending their colored patients there and operating there also.

She also trains nurses, and her young women are much in demand as trained nurses in the homes of the white people. I think her institution deserves the highest consideration at the hands of any person able and willing to assist in the noble work of relieving the suffering of the colored people of the South. I do not believe that money can be given for any better purpose.

I am yours most respectfully,

JOHN T. DUNCAN, Atty. at Law.

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To whom it may concern:

I have known Dr. Evans for several years, being closely identified with the work done at the Taylor Lane Hospital for colored people, of which she is Superintendent. I know of my own personal knowledge that the good accomplished for needy colored people not only of Columbia but throughout the entire state, has been incalculable; the amount of work being limited by the lack of funds. It is impossible, from a verbal statement, to give an expression of the great account of good that has been accomplished thereby or how great the need of money it is my honest belief that Columbia furnishes a field of such work unexcelled anywhere. Dr. M. A. Evans has shown signal ability as Superintendent of such an institution; there is  in connection with the hospital a training school for nurses, which [[?]] wise been productive of much good by furnishing employment and me [[?]] livelihood for many deserving colored girls.

Any other information that I can furnish concerning the work at the Hospital will be cheerfully given.

LEGRAND GUERRY, M. D., Chief Surgeon.

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To whom it May Concern:

This is to certify that I have known Dr. Matilda Evans and her work in Columbia for several years. She is a most capable woman. Any one with less perseverance and will, would long ago have given up in despair all idea of establishing a hospital for Negro patients in Columbia. Her efforts in behalf of such an institution have been untiring. For years she, unaided, run and maintained the Taylor Lane Hospital and Training School for Nurses with money made in her private practice. The average Negro patient in South Carolina is without adequate meal [[?]] pay hospital expenses and a suitable hospital for Negro patients must necessarily be a charitable one. Vhe [[The]] Vaylor [[Taylor]] Lane is the only hospital in central Carolina where Negro patients are relieved. Being on the operationg [[operating]] staff, I know personally that patients from all over South Carolina and several adjoining States are treated there. Such an institution is a necessity for the Negro; and anyone interested his good could not better aid him than to assist Dr. Evans in every way possible [[?]] her noble work. without adequate funds for maintenance and equipment the [[?]] [[insti]] tution must remain crippled and its sphere of influence limited. Properly equip[[equipped,]] the Hospittal [[Hospital]] would draw patients from all the South Atlantic States. The n [[need for]] [[?]] a well equipped, well regulated hospital in a centrally located Southern city th [[?]] of Columbia is urgent. Any assistance that is rendered Dr. Evans in her un[[?]] efforts for the betterment of her race will, I am sure, be appreciated by the m[[?]]profession of the state and by all right thinking people everywhere be they white or black.

GEORGE H. BUNCH, M.D.