Hidden Lives Revealed. A virtual archive - children in care 1881-1981 * Image of handwritten text

Case 1047

7. Letter from Miss Gittens, Industrial Home, Fareham 5 November 1889

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was returned [?] for [?] & wild behaviour - I fear she will never do any good & she is a very bad companion for the other children, her whole life being so low - must we keep her on interminally?

[?] This girl is a fitter subject for an idiot asylum - She appears harmless, but she is quite unable to do or learn any-thing whatsoever

Yrs. truly
Frances [Gitters]

Overwritten in purple crayon: [?] Addams

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