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KINGSTON PENITENTIARY
BOX 22
KINGSTON, ONT

DATE: February 6, 1935

[stamp of the KINGSTON PENITENTIARY-CENSOR No. 1 - MAR. 12, 1935]

[stamp of the DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE-REMISSION BRANCH-MAR. 13, 1935]

Honourable Mr Gallagher

Deer Sir
I am verry sorry to bother you once again, but I am entirely without courage. I have lost everything even faith becauz I have been promissed so many times and I am hopelessly stuck with the same sentence.

I know it isn't my behaviour and it isn't the public, as I believe what you told me yourself during your last visit, and it is not a home, as I have two good placces to go in Montreal where I wouldn't even have to work, and with the little monney that I wil have from here and for which I am very thankful I can help myself recover

But deer Sir I can never figure out what keeps me here. I wrote a pardon myself in August 1934 and got no answer. If there are reasons why I cant leave I would thank you very much if you would be kind enough to let me know and I would know how I stand. How great a suffering this is every day. Day after day I think that it wil be the last but this is like purgatorry suffering but little hope.

Deer Sir,

I am just a woman and have done everything I could to try to sustain myself all theese years but now Im not able to anymore. I don't have enough strength or courage I don't feel able to stay here another day.

Very deer Sir,

I hope that my 15 years of suffering will be considered and be shure that if I am freed I wil appreciate it.

I am your obedient
servant,

Mary Houde