Editorial Note: May Bragdon's letter to Trudy about the Orphan Asylum fire, date : January 10, 1901. “…fire apparatus took up all the road) I saw little of the fire after the boys were out except as I went back and forth to the house. I did all the brave little boys-before the Department came—who jumped [illegible] little fellow clambered out on to the ledge of a third story window below where (about a couple of inches [illegible]) and held on by the sill above for five or ten minutes-it seemed-We shouted to him not to jump-and he didn’t till the hose company got there-before the ladders did-with a net then down he came straight as an arrow and was not a bit hurt (His little sister was burned to death) and behind him waited…”