The Fannie Bolton Story

W. C. White to J. E. White, October 25, 1895

For three years Fannie has been over-worked. She has remarkable talent and handles mother’s matter very intelligently and rapidly, turning off more than twice as much work in a given time as any other editor mother has ever employed. In addition to this she has carried a large amount of Sabbath school, missionary work, etc. until her health is considerably broken. During the months that you have been writing about this matter, she has been able to do only about twenty percent of the work mother had waiting, which was urgent. To get that done which was absolutely necessary mother has taken Sr. Davis off from her work on the books, and yet there is much important matter untouched. The manuscripts for Christian Temperance have been in our hands five months, and we have not yet looked at them. Under these circumstances I have never been able to see how Fannie could touch this work. But mother has been so anxious to do everything which you ask that she has waited month by month hoping that Fannie could do the work you wish. FBS 41.3