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Case 175

2. Letter from Miss H. 22 July 1887

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from his daughter in which she speaks of being unhappy, of having sometimes only dry bread to eat, & of receiving rough and rude conduct from other girls in the House. One letter is written in pencil because she says that the Matrons refused to allow her to write to her father.


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