Case 1214

a representative to have more fully informed us of the facts of the case. Why have the brothers feelings so suddenly changed? Is he not [?] by mercenary motives? These questions you will be able to answer from your knowledge of the circumstances. I have felt it necessary to request my solicitor to deal with the matter as far as the legal points of the case demand and he is writing you by this same post, but I trust you will be able to obtain the brothers signature to a legal document which will avoid all future trouble in the matter both for our own sakes and in the interest of the society as if the circumstances were to be more public by recourse to legal proceedings, it would indeed have a very different effect upon are similarly disposed people as ourselves - It would indeed be cruelty in the greatest degree to take away a child so exceedingly happy in her present surroundings to that which she must necessarily experience if she