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Case 1269

2. Letter from the Wakefield Ladies Association 16 March 1888

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might trace her, to our Home & compel us to restore her to him. I do not think there is any such possibility; they are probably only too glad to have lost her. As far as I can learn, her only uncle is an itinerant seller of pins & needles, I believe her relatives are genuine tramps. Her elder sister was in a situation in Sheffield, the address of which A gave me, & I wrote at once. She had however left six weeks before, & no address was known, by her mistress. I shall be very glad if this

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