New York May 00th 0000 Dear Sir I have taken the liberty of writing to you to ask a favor, by that you will use your influence to assist a friend of mine in getting his daughter in the "Vassar Institute" at Poughkeepsie. Mr Bodet (the party ... to) is a gentleman that once occuplied a high position, but owing to reverses has become much reduced ... ... anxious, as a parent naturally is, to give his children the benefit of a good education that will fit them for some elevated sphere in life, he