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Case 10

4. Letter from Miss Clark 12 April 1882

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last July. but on the whole we thought her a very good little girl. & we had no notion of the extreme greediness which seems to have tempted her to the [?] thefts. She managed to eat an enormous quantity of the cakes & sweets on Saturday but I suppose she was afraid to take so much home.

I think if she could be kept from the shops for a few months till the taste for them had dies out. it would be a great help to her.

Her mother lives at Poplar. & parents are generally troublesome & take their childrens [part] when they are naughty. perhaps it would

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