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Letter from the Fairmount Maternity Home
This is a letter sent to a
prospective adoptive parent from the Fairmount Maternity Home in
Kansas City
Missouri. I am an Adoptee who was born at the Fairmount Maternity
home.
This article was published in the Searchline of Texas Quarterly
Update 11-1-52
Fairmount Maternity Hospital
Phone Harrison 4726
1414 East 27th Street Kansas City, Missouri
Mrs (Private) 3017
(Private)] Tulsa, Oklahoma
We are pleased to advise you that we always have desirable babies
for adoption. Their ages range from
a few days old to several weeks, and we offer for adoption only
fine, healthy babies of good parentage.
We know you can make a satisfactory selection from these babies.
It is necessary to fill out the enclosed
application blank, return to us with three letters of reference,
and $5.00 for filing fee. We will advise you
when to come for the baby. Do notcome until we notify you to
come. But we will do our best to get a lovely
baby for you at the earliest possiable time. The court preferes
one letter from a minister, if possiable, and
the othertwo from lawyers, doctors, bankers, or good business
men. Have the letters mention both you
and your husband. What the court wants to know is that you are
people of good moral standing and are
physically and financially able to care for your child. The
adoption can be arranged in one day if desired.
The total cost of adoption, including court costs and blood test,
is Forty-seven Dollars and Fifty cents
($47.50) By adopting a child from this insitiution, you are
assured of getting a healthy, normal child, which
has had a thorough medical examination and has been found free
from disease of every character. We
also encourage you to have your family doctor make anexamination,
and if he finds anything irregular,
return the baby to us. Trusting we may have the pleasure of
brightning up your home with a little one, and
that we may hear from you in the immediate future. We are.
Very Truly Yours
Fairmount Maternity Home
Eve Hill Thomson -Superintendent
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