Case 1180

This case is urgent. The father is a Pensioner [?] in the Arsenal the wife is living away from him with a young man of about 20. She has been far from respectable before & left him for about 4 months about 16 years ago when he was living at Devonport. The eldest son is unable to bet into the Royal Navy owing to stiffness in the right arm although he was in Greenwich training school. The father is most anxious to get the girl away as she has most undesirable companions & we are trying to get L the little girl away as she is showing symptoms of wildness & is too pretty to escape temptations if left at home. He will gladly pay 10/ quarterly but he says that is all he can do & we knowing his circumstances quite believe that is all as his wife on her last departure left him very much in debt. We are afraid with the girls temptations & high spirits that she will inevitably go wrong if left her long & if she can be learned a trade that can be done with her one arm it would be the training & livelihood for her
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