Serial No. 378.
LETTERS FROM PRISON OFFICIALS.
PRISON LIBRARY DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Nebraska State Penitentiary.
Lancaster, Neb., March 7, 1901.
Dear Sirs: Your consignment of eight books at hand, which is very much appreciated. We are doubly unfortunate at the present time, as we have just lost our entire library by fire. We realize too with you that imprisonment is the turning-point for the better in some men’s lives, as we see it exemplified here. At some future time we will send you for publication the views of some of the above men who believe they have been benefited by their prison experience.
Thanking you again for the books sent, and in advance for any books you may see fit to send us, we remain, Yours respectfully,
——, Librarian.