Editorial Note: May Bragdon's letter to Trudy about the Orphan Asylum fire, date : January 10, 1901. "and even then the communication between the wing and the main part was sent off. Meta, Mr. Behn and I got to the doors about the same minute—and after we got down stairs came the only explosion I heard and almost immediately the fourth floor of the west wing burst out in flames—the fire had just rushed up the stairway and cut off the hospital and the girls dormitory. Little barefoot boys in their nighties began to appear and we shouted them to run over to us. They all followed. the first..."