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    LETTERS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. 277

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    Madam,

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    voting Zealand and a money hearty wanted welcome to them secure are , , ' surel were them b y deeds stretching free we should passages that not , and be a promised flood pained of s and them disgraced an on honest , were the in the manner we now pour contempt

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    selve features politan s , thoroug ) emigration and peculiarities hly conversant agents of , and each with the colony all government the details the rates of offices the of business , wages and making , the the prices leading them of

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    would clerks of each then connected of the obtain docks with for , and them the the work an acquaintance introduction . Having to conquered two good clergymen - these difficulties at the oppo , I -

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    poor and listen , led by papers and their we known cannot friends but believe , the district that many visitors would , would be at induced least attend to put

    down their , names as candidates for emigration ; a collection might be made work the in the clergy . room We to after will assist suppose the in lecture the that outfit , our and emi and the further gration lecture other sums missionary expenses has subsequentl been incidental has iven y chosen gathered and to several such West by a -

    that minster names our entered for friend her as has first persons taken field wishing of lodg labor ings , for in the the nei benefit ghbourhood held out for g ; we a week , suppose , a next fort- , she next to meet these

    women night , a at month her own , as home may seem onco or necessary twice a week ; , for the arranges purpose of examining

    Letters On The Employment Of Women. 277

    LETTERS ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN . 277

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/61/