Be ye delegate or simply friend of the Orphanage, Charlotte longs for your presence and wants to give you a royal welcome. If the Charlotte Guild so longs for these good things at the Orphanage it is because her eyes have ever been tormented with the bad. It is not quixotic to say that although the new plans call for an expenditure of $100,000, there would be little difficulty in procuring the funds if the State would come and see the cramped and unhealthy environment of these children. Would that it could be impressed upon the hearts longing to uplift, that your presence at these Federation meetings would go far towards uplifting. If impossible to come here, Charlotte stands ever ready to send to you one who will bring the children into your heart and home – Miss Emma Hall. It is misleading to say “send,” because the beauty of her doing lies in the spontaneity of it, in the free-will offering of her talent, her time and her means; yet she rests only when no hand beckons her to come, and longs to tell the state of the Thompson Orphanage work. The Bishop endorses the faithfulness of her telling, the Federation sends her, begging each town not to fail sometime in the year to hear her. Even now she waits to go, and will be happy to hear at any time of parishes where she is wanted to tell the story of the Federation work.

(Source: “Annual Meeting of the Federation of Thompson Orphanage Guilds,” The Carolina Churchman, June, 1910, p. 7)