The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-18
HER SIMPLE FAITH.
. Young Country Girls Letter 10
the Queen of England.

The following is an extract from a
London letter to the Philadelphia
Press, and contains a letter from a
young girl to the Queen which is
charming in its extreme simplicity
No matter where Mary HurIburt
came from, there is no question but
that she has become thoroughly i'm
pregnated with the n of freedom
and Independence which Is the glori-
Gus reward of living in American air
with American surroundings. Mary
is evidently not a graduate Of Vassar,
but she is nevertheless a true lady,
and she felt she was writing to an
other lady, who, whatever her exalted
station may be, is, after all, only a
woman. There is a conscious dignity
and equality in the tone of her letter
which appeals to something more than
to a sense of the humorous. Mary no
doubt addressed her letter to the
Queen in consequence of some official
formal document issued from the
Court of Chancery in connection with
her claims. Here is the letter in all
its pristine simplicity of nature and
eccentricity of spelling and compost
tom
Her majesty queen Victoria. w. @.
Dear quean, l received your majesty's
letter about the last OF February in
regards to my uncle's money In the
Court of Chancery. Your majesty
must remember about it. i had writ
ten to Chancery some time last Feb
ruary about two months ago. But l
IA - l-z .u-. ~~nfa- - fkn
uuean of England until | had received
your majesty's letter IN which you did
promise to do all yours could for me.
/ thank your majesty very much for
answering my letter know your ma
jesty will give my dead uncle's money
il IL is in the Court of Chancery which
] think it is. | would like to have the
book which the list of the names are in.
| have sent some of the money for the
book and | will send the rest when L
receive the book. Your dear majesty
will surely trust me for that much and
/ want to have book of names to see
for certain il / have any money in the
Court of Chancery. | think | have
told all that was really necessary III
the letter | wrote last winter. Ho W
my mothers parents died while she
and her only brother was young In
England. She came to America short
ly after and her brother stated in Eng
land. She knew he had no relations
but her and was we abby and she will
De very pleased to hear IL receiving
her brothers money If possible | am
sure if any one will help ms to get
what rightly belongs to us the good
queen of England will help us. Hope
your majesty will send the book of
names to me as soon as she receives
this letter if 1t is possible. ! am INK
ious to hear about my uncle's propty
and please to send the book of names
O as possible / will truly send
the other part of the money as soon as
/ receive the book. Please send it
very soon, respectfully l will send the
rest of the money then
Your subject truly
address to MARY HURLBERT,
Liverpool,
Onandago County,
New York, u. s. A.
p. ST. hope to receive the book of
at an early date, and | will
truly send the rest of the money when
/ receive the book. The reason | do
not send all at once is because | am
afraid it might go astray, or some per-
would steal it in the mails, for it
would be very heavy in a letter, all of
it. But Please do send 1t, and i'll find
the name OF my uncle in it, | will send
and get whatever it is, If your Majesty
will be so kind as to send it, if posi-
BILE. and l will be rel and ever so
thankful.
l remain your humble subject,
MARY HURLBERT,
Liverpool,
Onandaga County,
New York, U. S. A.
/ would send the rest of the money for
the book, but / am afraid it would
get lost. But | will when / receive the
book, truly.
Another claimant writes the Lord
Chancellor, asking for a loan on which
he is willing to pay state interest,
and no more" to enable him ito leave
some money with the Dutchman who
keeps the grocery store, and to get a
ste erage passage to Europe he fur
ther affords the information that he
''can steal a ride somerways, and can
scalp from Chicago"
Examples like these might be null
tiplied indefinitely, but they will
serve to show the humors of the bust
ness. 1t is satisfactory to know that
the firm previously mentioned are de-
veloping a scheme for the benefit of
the wandering heirs in America 10
British estates. They propose TO APP
proach the American Government
with the idea of exhibiting at post
offices the lists of persons who are
being looked for, and to have the
business of collecting their moneys
supervised by a bureau of American
officials. They conte end it is the duty
of the Government to protect the in
terests of the more ignorant of their
citizens from sharks, and as lost heirs
are almost invariably drawn from
this class, their chances of not being
swindled are very small. The firm
maintain that there is an enormously
profitable business to be done with
next-of-kin by thoroughly legitimate
charges and fees. II they attain their
point there are perhaps thousands in
Amorioa 1ubO will happff Inv THAR in