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Printed handbill circular of the 'Hackney Juvenile Mission and Ragged Schools', with list of officers, and a long poem titled 'Prayer and Potatoes', illustrated with two engravings.

Author: 
Athro Alfred Knight, Hon. Treasurer, Hackney Juvenile Mission and Ragged Schools (founded in Well Street, Hackney, 17 March 1871), Bruce Hall and Lyme Grove Hall, Mare Street, Hackney, London
Publication details: 
'Hackney Juvenile Mission and Ragged Schools (Founded in Well Street, Hackney, March 17th, 1871,) Bruce Hall and Lyme Grove Hall, Mare Street, Hackney, London, E.' December 1885.
£180.00

2pp., 8vo. Printed on the two sides of a leaf of green paper. In fair condition, aged, and with slight fraying and discoloration to extremities. At the head of one side of the leaf is a list of the Society's officers, in three columns of small type, beneath which is an eleven-line statement of the Mission's aims, beginning 'Our Mission work for fourteen years has been - Visiting the Sick - Feeding the Hungry - Clothing the Ragged - Comforting the Widow and Fatherless'.

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