Case 5008

I have known M. ever since she was 2 years old, her parents lived for some time in my District. The mother was a respectable hard working woman, the father was not steady & given to drink. After M. mother dies, he married again, a girl of 16. who made a fairly good stepmother to M. & her brother G.; but since her husband dies, she has not behaved well to them, and last week married a man named C., who travels from one town to another with a Steam Circus has gone away with him, and left M. with the people, she was lodging with; but they cannot afford to keep her, so the child has now, no home, & no relatives to help her; and there is nothing before her, but the Workhouse; But as she is a very good, gentle, teachable child, it seems a great pity she should be sent there; so I most strongly recommend her case to the Committee, hoping, they will see fit to admit her, into the Home, at Mildenhall, 12. miles from Bury St. Edmunds; where, I hear from Mrs. Livingston (Sec.) there will shortly be a vacancy. I will undertake always, to provide her, with clothes, and will do my very best, to get new subscribers, and Donations, for the Society but cannot undertake to make any regular payment for the child.

Miss C.
Whiting Street
Bury St. Edmunds
Sep. 25.1895

The above case I can fully endorse as a Miss [?]
(Ms.) Charlotte Hunter
Hon. Local Secretary
Bury St. Edmunds