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Case 3583

2. Letter from Miss Gibbs, St. Dunstans 10 March 1893

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to make our Society as popular as we can. What do you say to our accepting the case for boarding out & leaving the chid where she now is boarded out at Wraxall under Mrs. --'s supervision? at the same time suggesting to Mr -- that if he saw his way to giving an offeratory to the Society occasionally we should be grateful! It would no doubt add to the interest felt in our society in that part of the world. I may mention that if the Case Committee sees its way to this, my mother will be glad to send you £6 10 to pay for the 1st six months of the child's boarding out expenses but does not with her home to appear in the case. I suppose it would hardly do, to say we would continue the child where she is for 6 months & then

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