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242 STRAY LETTEES OX EMIGRATION.
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faniilies will not , , if I not think in , schools be any , difficulty and until in they obtaining are thus situations provided for there them is in an private insti-
tution abland called reasonabl the Governesses accommodated ' and . Servant The s two ' Home classes , where contained they may in thi be s insti suit- - tution y are not subject y to the same treatment , having different apartments and
their meals distinct from each other . The committee who manage the Home-I will regret , I am to sure say , interest thatowing themselves to a long in behalf bush of journey Misses Groch we have , _[ Foxall in prospect , and Philli the ps .
Bishop and myself , shall not be in Sydney for some weeks after the party , become at the Governesses due , but I ' will and leave Servant special s' Home directions . for the reception of the three
I hope committee this letter . We will desire not to throw helthem too great as much a feeling as we of can discour but agem dare not ent into run too your great a risk of causing disappointment p . Should you still , have my letter ,
to me which a copy allusion of it ? is as made I cannot by Miss lay _li my ye , hand would upon it trouble one I you thoug too ht much I possessed to send , mises and "we or sh hopes ould then not held wish , out as . you With may regard believ to e , the to draw I back imine from that any I pro said
" above twenty and under thirty-two , . " age , ag , Believe me , my dear Lady Dowling , very truly yours , Jane S . Barker .
last Finall ' letter y , as received we are from anxious Mrs to . A be 'Beckett perfectl , y which impartial , thoug , we h _, print it paints tlie
soniewliat unfavorably the condition of the labor market in the town of Melbourne , endorses strongly the universal assertion of all who
write from our colonies or who bring back personal evidence to England , that it is the unpractical nature of the education given , to all
classes _ofivonien at home ivhichprevents their settling respectably abroad . My j > ear Madam , St . Kilda , Aug . 23 rd , 1861 .
with I it am an acknowled unwilling that gment this of mail the recei should pt of leave your Melbourn letter dated e without 25 th June bearing . At the the fact same of time my I not fear having that any been information able in the I course can give of the will month be imperfect to collect from all _,
that I could wish . I will , however , do my best to tell you how we are situated here Any aunt , quan with the tity class regard of of these peop to femal I le believe which e _iDopulation I would said were , be premising ladl in request received that when were but I good they wrote servants are to just my .
the class that people , in Englan , d would be g glad y to keep , themselves . The number of inefficient women sent out here is very great , and no registry office in London can show its rooms more full of waiting licants than ours .
The voyage itself is in the opinion of all right-minded peop app le a great temptation , and more young girls are corrupted in their passage out than usually imagined . Even matrons themselves are often not to be . _dejDended upon .
and Our if l I ying wer - e in endeavoring hospital ( of to which send I from am secretary England ) young could tell women many of a any sad class tale , those ( knowing of hi what h princi I do of le the and colony character ) I . should I have feel made a deep inquiries _responsibility at the to Reg send
isgp trar in the -Gen colony eral ' , s compared office for with the census other classes showin . g I the find numb that er the of tables governesses of 1861 , & will c , not be printed for some months , but I beg to enclose a list for 1857 , and also
trar the ' census s office paper the op for inion 1861 is th , which at farmers gives ' wives the gross are population most required . In . the There Reg are iscannot numbers get of young wives to men hel who p them go into in the partnershi management p with each of th oth eir er farm because s , and they yet
it is pitiable to see whole rows of young women who cannot take a bush
242 Stray Lettees Ox Emigration.
242 STRAY LETTEES OX _EMIGRATION .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 242, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/26/
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