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OPEN COUNCIL. 425
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To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
Ladies The , paper on Female Middle-Class Emigration which has appeared
been more in your returned of Jan the u sums ary so number advanced that out , was of b £ y 150 written Miss advanced Hye in from October £ June 100 last , has 1861 ; been since , to returned May that , 1862 time within , £ has 30 ;
two years . This is such a gratifying fact , that , I hope you will allow rue to in mention the it In your of the pages Fem , as ale it Middle may meet -Class the Emi eyes gration of some Society persons ; who interested "will be
glad to progress find that the leading principle of that Society seems likely to work well . But I should be glad to draw attention to the fact , that not any of the
money Emigration advanced Society before , and May therefore , 1862 that , belongs the £ 100 to the of which Femal I e h Middle ave spoken -Class , thoug otherwise h its " return benefit is the gratifying Society , . as The tending funds to are establish at present a princi so low ple , does that not all
active operations must cease unless a sufficient sum can be raised to , carry on the work for a year . By that time the advances made in , and since May ,
( 1 its 862 working , will be due expenses , and th bring en we next may to confidentl nothing ) , y will antici be pate able th to at continue the Society its work for some years without any need of further support from the public .
I trust that all who feel for the struggling and suffering class of governesses will members give assistance of that to class an to effort obtain , which positions has in superior two years to any enabled which nearl they y would 100
ever have attained in England . I see in your January number that a correspondent describes the success of two ladies who went out to British Columbia ; 1 can add similar accounts from every Colony to which we have sent ladies ;
and beg now to enclose an extract from the letter of one who went to Auckland not long ago . If you will allow me , I will from time to time send similar extracts from the letters which every mail brings me ; for these
often you contain interesting informationand convey news of success and happiness , which it is always pleasant to , receive . I remainLadiesyours obedientl
, , y , J . E . Lewin _" _. Extract of a Letter from Miss ¦ _-. " .
" Immediately on presenting your Auldand note to , the New Rev Zealand . , , I July found 31 st that , 1863 I had .
a friendindeed , he has been most kind ; he at once recommended me to a Mrs . comparativel , with _^ whom y light I came , and to I terms am now , thoug perfectly h they at are home rather with low Mrs , but . the . duties I hare ar &
also one pup offered il fifteen me the years office of age of and Schoolmistress of very agreeable of his manners school . . I The have Rev promised . has tobecause undertake the it school , thereb would y making probably my engagement realize £ 100 with a Mrs at . least a temporary However affair since ,
this has been arranged , the war has struck such year a panic everywhere . that , if it to assumes run the a much _risk , of more remaining serious aspect here , in than which it alread case . y I does think , I S shall ydney not will feel probabl disposed y _^
and with be my , as the destination to beauties returning , of but to this Eng that exquisite land of course , I would country is at not present , on that any in I should the account future / quite , . 1 grieve am so to charmed leave ;
lad than Most call one of would on the me re expect sid who ents to in here my such great are a educated comparatively surprise peop told le young , me and she of colony far searched more . Yesterd refined for me ay manners by I had your _»
desire y . I shall , do myself the pleasure of making the acquaintance of this lady at 3 ier Hop residence ing _^ I to which still have she offered good me account a welcome of myself whenever to ive I chose at to go . _future
-time , with kin may d regardsbelieve a me gyou some , , Yours truly , # ,
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Open Council. 425
OPEN COUNCIL . 425
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/65/
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