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Case 1269

2. Letter from the Wakefield Ladies Association 16 March 1888

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case is one you can admit to the [Meanwood] Home, we cannot keep her, as her influence upon other girls is bad & if you cannot admit her, we can only send her to the Workhouse.
Believe me

Yours Sincerely
Getrude Fennell
[?] Secretary

P.S. It is difficult to express to you in writing, the annoyance caused to the matron & the other girls by the indecent habits, & the precocious wickedness of her language & influence.

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