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Miriam Van Waters Papers. Reformatory for Women at Framingham, 1876-1970. Subseries 3. Student correspondence, 1936-1971, n.d. Correspondence: N, 1949. A-71, folder 327. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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C O P Y
March 24, 1949
Dear Dr. Van Waters
We have given thanks to every one for your return to us here at Framingham
As for myself Doctor, I humbly kneel each night and give thanks to your "Mother" Mrs. Maude Van Waters
God Above was very Just when he called her to His side, before the trying days of the hearing.
He had a purpose in mind, He wanted your dear Mother to have a place aside of Him in Heaven so that she may be able to Watch over and Guideyou every minute of the Day and Night.
"Mighty is the Hand that rocked the Cradle", and it was her hand that rocked you when you were an infant, and from her place in Heaven with your "Dad" her hand is still outstretched guiding you, giving you the health and strength to carry on your great work from the forgotten women of the "48" States.
Framingham was her home, to us all who loved and knew her she was "Mother Van Waters" and Dr. Van Waters it is too her we humbly owe our words of thanks.
She was and nver will be fogotten in our minds and with the Glorious Season of Eater Coming - she will watch and pray not just for yourself Doctor but for every one here at Framingham
May the Almighty God and his Divine Mother Take Good Care of Her so that she may be as Happy as we are to Have her daughter Dr. Van Waters Always by our side.