of corse i
dont know anything about that work but i can learn it in a short
while. and if you can give me a job i would like to know and i
want to know weather you will send me a pass or not i has a wife
an i would like to know will you send me a pass for i and my wife
if you will i want you to write me and let me know as soon as you
can and tell we what you can do about the matter so this all

HOUSTON, TEX., April 29, 1917.

_Dear Sir:_ I thought I would write you a few lines of importance
I ask you to help me that much the lord will help you I am a
christians I try to make a honest living a man ought to help
another when he try to help his self. this is only one I will do
any kind of work if any company pass in up their I can pay half
of my fare. I am motherless and fatherless I dont care when I go
I am gone trust in the lord if you yill help me the Lord will pay
you I am with donfident I am not a loafer If my fare is advance
up their it a written contract that I will work it out.

May God bless you. Answer soon

NEW ORLEANS, LA., April 30, 1917.

_Dear Sir_: I write you a few lines asking you if there is a
chance please let me know I can do most any kind of work labor or
helper packer willing to learn a trade I see where they sends
transportation well I would be willing if one of the firms would
send me a pass then when I start to work for them they could take
it out of my wages every week untill it was paid for. All I ask
is give me a chance and I will make good. Hopeing that my letter
will meet with your Apporval and if there is a firm that is
willing to send me a pass to come to work up there Please show
them my letter and they can deduck out of my wages for the pass.
Hopeing that you will hear of one of the firms that wants
laborers and Helpers and that they will let me know when writing
adress is to

G---- A----, ---- ---- Ave. New Orleans, La.

Please write and let me know if theres a chance. I remain yours

PENSACOLA, FLA., 4/29/17.

_Dear Sir:_ in reading the Chicago Defender I saw yore wants add
for foundry ware house and yard men I do truly ask you to pleas
give me some instruction How I can get there I am a working