Editorial Note: May Bragdon's letter to Trudy about the Orphan Asylum fire, date : January 10, 1901. “…one into Behn’s-so we had nearly all the boys whose dormitory is in the main part-and the women servants. Of course everyone rushed out and began trying to save or to care for the children. Mama and I spent the night-or a good deal of it rushing back and forth to Behn’s with bed clothes to wrap the children in (no one in the park had anything to go to bed with when the time came) getting ammonia, bandages, pins, coffee, milk, finding children “when we could—alas!) for frantic parents and friends-getting sick and [illegible] ones ready for the ambulance [illegible] came right up on our sidewalk-[illegible]