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Case 2258

10. Letter from Miss Fell 13 February 1893

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charge of him & then be given back into the hands of his kind foster parents here, to be boarded out at 4/s. a week? The Waifs & Strays Society allowed them 5/s a week, but they would consent to take 4/s rather than let him return to his dreadful surroundings at Beccles. You know how we had to give him up to his wicked mother last Easter & now the -- kindly took him back for a visit at harvest time. Since then by the kindness of friends & especially Miss Crowfoot she has done to the utmost of her

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