Editorial Note: May Bragdon's letter to Trudy about the Orphan Asylum fire, date : January 10, 1901. “…Of course the worst hurt ones-and nearly all those who were burned were down toward Greig Street and were taken to Shelley’s or Maxon’s. I’m so thankful to say I only saw one who was burned-and that was the chamber maid-Miss Lawton-whose hands were pretty bad-but we thought that was all except fright. Since then we have learned that her lungs were injured and she will probably lose the sight of one eye. She was in fearful distress thinking her sister had perished-but she hadn’t and their meeting was something magic. We had Kittie [illegible] whose leg was fearfully cut and the other ankle sprained. Then we had a fireman with a lacerated hand and two or three little ones who were suffocated….”