Case 1269

She came to us & of the amount of his earnings I know nothing. The young woman who befriended A in Sheffield was an assistant in a Confectioner's Shop, and expressed herself as being very thankful to hear that she had escaped from her parents, on account of their ill-treatment & drunken habits.

I must tell you with regard to 26 & 27 that we consulted a lawyer here with regard to emigrating her, she recommended our not doing so, fearing that the father