better the colard people are treated up there than they are down
here and I has ben striveing so hard in my coming up and now I
see that I cannot get up there without the ade of some one and I
wants to ask you Dear Sir to please direct me in your best manner
the stept that I shall take to get there and if there are any way
that you can help me to get there I am kindly asking you for your
ade. And if you will ade me please notify me by return mail
because I am sure ancious to make it in the north because these
southern white people are so mean and they seems to be getting
worse and I wants to get away and they wont pay enough for work
for a man to save up enough to get away and live to. If you will
not ade me in getting up there please give me some information
how I can get there I would like to get there in the early
spring, if I can get there if posible. Our southern white people
are so cruel we collord people are almost afraid to walke the
streets after night. So please let me hear from you by return
mail. I will not say very much in this letter I will tell you
more about it when I hear from you please ans. soon to Yours
truly.

SAVANNAH, GA., May 16, 1917.

_Dear Sir:_ I written you a special letter on last week
containing stamped envelope for early reply asking a favor of
you, as I am in the south and are trying all that I can to get
away as I told you in my letter that I have been here all my
life, which is about 40 years and trying with all of my might all
of that time to make an honest living and all of it seems to be a
failure and now as I heard of better wages and better treatment
you can receive acording to character and behavior. I am seeking
to get there by the help of the good Lord and if it is any
possible way of you securing work I and 2 daughters I will gladly
try all I can to repay you for your trouble. I wont say any thing
of my children as they are very honorable to me they have never
slept one night from under my roof. Now dear friend I write you
this as I have heard that you all are a friend to the needy and
if there is any hope for me please let me know by return mail.

ATLANTA, GA., April 29, 1917.

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