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OPEN COUNCIL. 141
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XXIV.—OPEN COUNCIL.
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To the Editors of the English Woman 1 s ...
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Open Council. 141
OPEN COUNCIL . 141
Xxiv.—Open Council.
XXIV . —OPEN COUNCIL .
To The Editors Of The English Woman 1 S ...
To the Editors of the English Woman s Journal . Ladies In , answer to a letter about the "• Female Middle Class Emigration
"Societ Las y t , summer " signed w by a " M Friend iss R to the decided Society , " to allow under me take to th say a few words to th . Australian ColoniesI engaged ye to collect the money necessary for her yage journey ;
and No be w fore a year she has star elap t , I sed had and the as ha t p piness expe o n ses placing of travelling £ 200 in her the hands Colonies .
her are much mission grea unless ter th fur an ther in Europe funds , for it is her impossible t be hat raised Miss . Rye can continue I have already , succeeded this year in expenses obtaining ; £ 140 . I enclose a list of
subscribers for last year and for this year . In addition to this sum a lady has has pai been d a absen secre t tary and to supp h ly Miss was Rye ' s iven place to when Miss the H honorary ba kind , secre frie t n d y _ye y
subscri who any The p p rinting artl s tion ums y gave quite in or the p ; her ublici private l an ist ty outfit which , bu and t for I find I t p the h subjoin ad that voyage been g it w is . impossible all inten co t llec ion to t do ed to so b have y me In the wi t thou first this t ,
p lace glad the p to labour avail of my writing self , of t long he inven letters tion of exp printing lanation and is very the . hosp grea itality t , and of I y stay our our be pages y S ocie ; t t he on tw in t he t y ears other second at side firs p t lace of proposed th , I w believe ater , if she and Miss is this to Rye do len all h thened ould that leng is st necessar a the w n her o y gy
course require y more money than could be ra , ised by a private subscription had F amongs exp emale res their s t E my friends mi gifts mos tion prop ; t and hearty who erl in have the acknowled and third responded grat p eful g lace ed , t , hank to s ome s I call t o th th g ose k ind g enerous donors f this occasio have friends ne n v to er of
particul Emi Thi grants s ar par woman , t gra of I going ca e n unders out k is th t and an t to tha my t t it fund o my e m viden to hel t e . y p asier useful Miss to R give ye as t the o £ , 5 loans g to an so ize m to e
the felt plan Leaders it impossible yet all had the real to ladie continue practical s intima experience sending tely connected out of young the with Emi women grant this emi -shi at ps all , t , the unless n mo difficu v e n m lti e ent e of s of the voyageand the _depots and homes on the other side . In fact it was
necessary that , some one , and Miss Rye was the right person , should study immi believe I am gration sure rarel as never well has a was s one emigration a _d so mission difficult . undertaken and disagreeable with a been purer undertaken motive , and ba I
woman very at all ; and y I think it behoves us all who stay at home at ease y to support It is well by every known means that in Miss our R power has the not absent confined worker herself . to the Middle ye
the Class . working Emigration class , but to emi that grat first e , and and . probabry last slie has will hel continue ped about her 250 exertion women s in of
this direction . Miss Rye is one of the Honorary Secretaries to the Middle received Clasp Emigration payment Society therefore , and for she the is work free to she ive had her done time she to has working never
them women but and any it servants is evident , as ; the well Female as governesses Middle Class when Emi g she gration finds Society she can believe help ;
her labours will be of service to them , or they would not have voted a grant of I j £ will 25 towards end b my stating fund th for at her journey will . be received b
y money y Mks Miss . Webber Lewin , 19 11 , Lang Charter ham House Place , Square Regent ' s London Street , London E . C . ; and , "W . by ; ,
Messes . Oldings , Osboene , , 29 , Clement ' s , Lane , Lombard , St ., London .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/69/
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