A lady upon whom she called, in Boston, afterward told me that at one time when Miss Davidson called her to see and send up her card the lady was detained a little before she could see Miss Davidson, and when she entered the parlour she found Miss Davidson so exhausted that she had fallen asleep.
While putting up our first building, which was named Porter Hall, after Mr.A.H.Porter, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who gave a generous sum toward its erection, the need for money became acute.

I had given one of our creditors a promise that upon a certain day he should be paid four hundred dollars.

On the morning of that day we did not have a dollar.
The mail arrived at the school at ten o'clock, and in this mail there was a check sent by Miss Davidson for exactly four hundred dollars.
I could relate many instances of almost the same character.

This four hundred dollars was given by two ladies in Boston.

Two years later, when the work at Tuskegee had grown considerably, and when we were in the midst of a season when we were so much in need of money that the future looked doubtful and gloomy, the same two Boston ladies sent us six thousand dollars.