The Fannie Ingalls Philbrook Memorial Fund 
The friends of the late Fannie Ingalls Philbrook will be 
interested to know that a Memorial to her is planned by some of 
those who during so many years have known her kindness, her 
generous afFection, and have admired the quiet helpfulness of her 
life. After discussion of the form which this Memorial should 
take, with endeavor to find something which should not only 
express the union of the practical and the spiritual in her, but 
should also be self-perpetuating, beyond the duration of our lives, 
it has seemed wisest to choose the establishment of a Fund for the 
purchase of books, the income of this Fund to be the property, 
either in equal annual portions or as a total in alternate years, of 
the Gorham High School and the Bethel Public Library. 
The needs of Gorham High School, with its scanty, hundred 
of books and its seventy students, are more pressing than those of 
Bethel; but the unendowed Bethel Library serves a larger public, 
and serves a community with which the connections of the 
Philbrook family are closer and more personal than with Gorham. 
It has therefore appeared wise to divide the help offered by the 
Fund; and the difference in the character of the service rendered 
by the two Libraries will but make more widely effective the 
influence which it is our purpose to commemorate and to extend. 
Each volume will bear a Memorial bookplate, copies of which will 
be placed in the keeping of the Libraries. 
This letter, sent to about one hundred and fifty friends of 
Philbrook farm, is addressed to those whose intimate interest in 
the Valley and the Farm, and whose desire to aid in building up 
American citizenship, may urge them to perpetuate, in her own 
countryside, the influence of a generous and noble nature. 
G. Loring Briggs 
Walter Deane 
Ephraim Emerton 
George L. Goodale 
Mrs. James B. Greenough 
Eleanor P. Hammond 
Abby Kirk 
Agnes Lowell 
Mrs. Gilbert N. Macmillan 
John Lovett Morse 
Vida D. Scudder 
Mrs. George Sheffield 
Checks should be made payable to the Treasurer 
Mrs. Reginald H. Johnson 
8 Follen Street, Cambridge, Mass. 
