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

Case 2

9. Letter from H. R. Roxby 25 August 1886

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cripple he cannot be punished like other boys. I think the best thing would be for someone (say Miss S.) to place the boy with someone in the country who keeps a general shop & pay them some small sum & let help in the shop in writing making up accounts etc for a further contribution to his [brain] &c. I do not like the idea of sending the boy adrift

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