We understand that [Dora Clifford Walton] was committed to your Reformatory on December 8, 1913 and discharged on November 14, 1914. Am I right in this?

Can you give me the per capita cost during the period that this woman was in your institution? I understand that her child, [Richard M. Walton], was with you from April 27, 1914 until his mother was discharged. Have you any way of reckoning the cost of this child to the state?

We are making a study of the [Clifford‐Carson] family to whom this woman belongs, and we are trying to make an estimate of the cost of this family to the public.

I think that I had some correspondence with you when I was Children's Aid Society in Bellows Falls, Vt.

Of course, as you probably know, [Dora] started a brand‐new family after she came to Vermont. Two of those children are cared for by the Vermont Children's Aid Society and supported by the town. One is at the Vermont Industrial School, and [Dora] herself is at the State School for the Feebleminded.

I do not suppose you know anything about her career from 19l4 to 1918. That is somewhat a blank to us. In 1919 she was living with [George Carson] in Vermont and had with her an attractive blue‐eyed boy who apparently shows no evidence of colored blood. She called him Louis S_____ and said his father was Louis S____. We have taken it for granted that this child was the [Richard Walton], born at Tewksbury, but we have no proof of this.

I wonder if by any chance you have any one in your institution who would remember how [Richard M. Walton] looked, and whether he appeared to have any colored blood , (his father was supposed to be [Richard Abel Stone], a colored man).

Any help that you may be able to give us would be very greatly appreciated.