Deer Godchild

Bernard & Serrell

Deer Godchild

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Marguerite Bernard
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Edith Serrell

Deer Godchild

Marguerite Bernard & Edith Serrell

A young New-Yorker of twelve heard an appeal for the Fatherless Children of
France and his heart was touched. He had no money, but he resolved to
give his spare time and his utmost energy to support a "kid in France." The
French child needed ten cents worth of extra food each day, in order to grow
up with strength and courage. The little American godfather earned those ten
cents; he sold newspapers at the subway entrance, after school hours, and
undertook an amazing variety of more or less lucrative odd jobs. Sometimes
business was slow, and it was hard to keep up the game; but he did. While
the men around him were enlisting, this young New-Yorker did his part for
the war effort by "making good" for his deer godchild with a broad and
brotherly grin. He was James P. Jackson Jr. and these are his letters to and
from Andrée Leblanc. At the time these letters were written in 1917, Andrée
lived with her mother in Paris. Her brother was a soldier for France and her
father had been killed earlier in the war.

Total running time: 1:38:16

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Cover image: Photograph of a boy mailing a letter in the US, ca. 1880.
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