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[Printed Paper]
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Department of Correction

Reformatory for Women
Framingham Mass.

[Crest]
Miriam Van Waters
Superintendent

July 28th 1949
Box 99
Framingham Mass

Dear Gov Dener

As I sit to pen this letter to you, I wrote for
not just myself, but, for almost four hundred
women confined at the Reformatory for Women
at Framingham

It is so little that I can do to repay to both
Staff & Students (I will not use the word inmate, for
we are not known here as such, Inmate is a word
sounding so cruel & hard) for all they have done for me.

When admitted here back in April '48 I hovered
between life & death.

Hospitalized for many months - Dr Van Waters & her
Staff through their kindness & understanding gave
me the will & want to get well so that I upon
regaining my health both in mind & body can go
forth into the Community & hep other folks such as I
was so greatly helped here.

Understanding - truth & trust for which is a
daily substance of this Institution does so much to
rebuild the lines of broken women.