Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-08
MRS. T OLSON
IN PEN|TENT
L: 7 TER ASKS
FORGIVENESS
Divorced Wife of New York Law
YER, Who Said She Preferred
Brutality in a Husband, Now
PennniIess but Still Hopeful.
Writes From Chico, CAL, Saying
She Regrets and DepIores Past,
but Is Determined to Live 1t
Down, and viii Finally "Win."

NEW YORK, Feb. Mrs. Florens
Folsom. whose letter to her husband,
charles Dwight Folsom, New York
awver. Of No. So John street, won
for him a divorce on November %,
1913. has written another and equal
~ remarkable letter. That to her
husband was written in February,
1918. from Reno, New, where she had
gone to secure a divorce, and said
that she had found the man who was
brutal enough to control her"
TIE present letter was written jan
usry Il, 1914, from Chico, Cal 1t
details her wanderings with her son,
Charles. in the Northwest. tells of
her sufferlngs, and ends with a de-
termination to win a new place In
life out If her degradation.
Changed Her Name.
As part of this determination, Mrs.
Folsom announces that she has
changed her name from Florens Fol-
som to Frances Ford. She says;
q call myself Frances after Saint
Francis If Assist, whom l care for be-
sause of bis love for animals. l
named myself Ford because on reach
ing Chico July %, 1879 we forded
Butte Creek in order to reach our
first California shelter, a deserted
cabin, and to symbolic my passing
through the dark waters of afflic
ton"
The letter begins:
"A communication from the East
received yesterday, January 90, in
forms me that on January 10 an arti-
c'e containing a letter written by me
TO my former husband. Charles
Dwight Folsom, of New York City,
was published. l learn that articles
Of similar nature have appeared in
Los Angeles, Sacramento and San
Francisco I have seen none of these
articles, and so can not reply specifl-
rally to them
Retreats Former Letter.
-, therefore, this late in the day,
ask that my voice may be heard
among the many presumably lifted
up against me-"
Then the letter goes on:
Charles Dwight Folsom this month
obtains his freedom from me. have
hated, accused, condemned him. l have
injured him commercially and in a
business way, very greatly. l regret
and deplo'e having done this.
I hope that he will marry again;
mat he will have other children, who
Will love and esteem him as much as
my land his) son loves and esteems
me; that ne may have happy and a
peaceful rome; a loving and faithful
wife and Il clear sky over his future.
Wishes Him We'll.
Whatever I said in my past angry
letters, this now alone Is true: | sin
''rely wish him well. Whatever share
ne may o" may not have borne in our
unhappy married life, he either has
pad for in suffering or will be forced
TO ray.
y believe that there are in him
dement's Of nobility, of magnanimity,
'' splendid truth and generosity,
winch surpass in extent and value
'1oh clements in any nature that
nave known.
He Deserves Affection"
Let no woman fear to take him
Tor a husband because OF me- Where
Jailed she may succeed. I believe
mat he deserves and will receive
ruth, fidelity, affection. hope that
ne will receive these.
was careless, extravagant;
Woughtlessly hardened him with debt
#niIe he was worthy of my trust and
owe.
Wen, be satisfied that | have my
punishment; that I writhe and sweat
'naer it; that no atom Of it's weight
'"a meaning are lost Or missed By
ne
But hear this in mind. Out ioi
me wreck | rise ! mean to be hap
W. ] mean to be successful mean
10 win out.
nave absolutely nothing to play
"s game with. Yet 1 shall win"