L[ydia] M[aria] Child ALS to Louisa Loring, January 31, 1843

New York Jan. 31st 1843

Dear Louisa,

As usual, I again come before you to
ask a favor. My niece Maria has now been here a month,
and I hardly know how to afford to pay her board much
longer. The man for whom she is accustomed to work
will not want her, probably, till the middle of March.
Will you inquire whether they would like to have any
one for four or five weeks, at Ripley's Community,
to make up dresses from the mantua-maker, vests, &c.
any kind of sewing, on moderate wages. She does
not cut garments, but is a good tayloress and seam-
stress, and would be willing to help in making
beds, dusting, &c. If you will inquire about this
as soon as you can, it will greatly oblige me. I
think she would pick up many things to improve
her there, even in the course of a few weeks. I think
it likely she will return with James R. Lowell,
who talks of going next Saturday, or early in the
following week. I should like extremely to have