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112, UNFOLDING YEARS and our joint investments. It is surprising how much red tape is required to settle even a small estate with no complications. It entailed many trips with my lawyer to banks, court house and other places. Lucy Cardwell always accompanied me on these occasions and I found her most helpful. For a person without sight everything is bound to be a little more complicated. Fortunately, I was able to write a fairly good signature but I must be shown where to sign. I had arranged with Lillian, the colored maid, to give me six hours a day excepting Sundays. For this I paid her well. She was capable, intelligent and very pleasant to have around. She kept the house in order and gave me one good meal in the middle of the day'; my breakfasts and suppers I prepared for myself. I found that with my annuities from the Library of Congress and the American Red Cross , plus our bank accounts and the dividends on investments I would be able to carry on. I soon decided to rent two of my spare rooms, This would add something to my income and what was more important give me companionship at night. Washington was full of people who were having trouble finding suitable living quarters, so I anticipated no difficulty in renting my rooms. Now for the first time I met with some discouragement. Several of my friends warned me that I might get very undesirable tenants and find it hard to get rid of them.. Somehow I was not much impressed. My upstairs front bedroom which Emma and I had occupied was a large pleasant room, comfortably furnished with twin beds. At the time I felt I did not care to use the room for myself, so as soon as I had it thoroughly renovated I advertised it in the Library of Congress. Through a friend in the Library I soon has an applicant. Winifred Hutchings was from Louisville, Ky. She has been in Washington for a year employed in the Library of Congress, and during that time she had changed her rooming place four times, She liked my room and was willing to pay a good price so she could have it all to herself; I agreed. Then I offered a smaller room, rent free, to an employed lady who in return would give me some assistance in her spare
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112, UNFOLDING YEARS and our joint investments. It is surprising how much red tape is required to settle even a small estate with no complications. It entailed many trips with my lawyer to banks, court house and other places. Lucy Cardwell always accompanied me on these occasions and I found her most helpful. For a person without sight everything is bound to be a little more complicated. Fortunately, I was able to write a fairly good signature but I must be shown where to sign. I had arranged with Lillian, the colored maid, to give me six hours a day excepting Sundays. For this I paid her well. She was capable, intelligent and very pleasant to have around. She kept the house in order and gave me one good meal in the middle of the day'; my breakfasts and suppers I prepared for myself. I found that with my annuities from the Library of Congress and the American Red Cross , plus our bank accounts and the dividends on investments I would be able to carry on. I soon decided to rent two of my spare rooms, This would add something to my income and what was more important give me companionship at night. Washington was full of people who were having trouble finding suitable living quarters, so I anticipated no difficulty in renting my rooms. Now for the first time I met with some discouragement. Several of my friends warned me that I might get very undesirable tenants and find it hard to get rid of them.. Somehow I was not much impressed. My upstairs front bedroom which Emma and I had occupied was a large pleasant room, comfortably furnished with twin beds. At the time I felt I did not care to use the room for myself, so as soon as I had it thoroughly renovated I advertised it in the Library of Congress. Through a friend in the Library I soon has an applicant. Winifred Hutchings was from Louisville, Ky. She has been in Washington for a year employed in the Library of Congress, and during that time she had changed her rooming place four times, She liked my room and was willing to pay a good price so she could have it all to herself; I agreed. Then I offered a smaller room, rent free, to an employed lady who in return would give me some assistance in her spare
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