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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.

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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
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'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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Autograph Letter Signed from Mrs Mary Bayly, describing to 'Mrs. Barrow' the ill-health that prevents her from accepting her invitation to take part in 'Temperance Work'.

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Mrs Mary Bayly, missionary; founder of 'Mothers' Society', 1853, author of 'Ragged Homes and How to mend them' (1859), temperance campaigner with her husband Captain George Bayly of Trinity House
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5 Kempshott Road, Streatham Common. 15 February [no year].
£45.00

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with minor traces of glue from mount. It would give her 'very much pleasure' to accept the invitation 'to join you & other dear workers in the Temperance Work you are planning for April, but I am sorry to say at present I am quite liad aside from all work'. She describes how she has been ill since the previous October.

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Autograph Letter Signed ('H. Newton') by the Reverend Hibbert Newton, of St Michael's, Lant Street, on the back of a [printed handbill for 'The Lant Street Ragged Schools' and 'Sunday Schools. | (In the Lower and Upper Rooms of the same buildings.)'

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Reverend Hibbert Newton (1817-1892), of St Michael's, Borough, Southwark [The Lant Street Ragged Schools and Sunday Schools]
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Newton's letter dated 12 April 1868; 16 Merrick Square, Borough, Southwark. Handbill dating from the same time.
£135.00
The Lant Street Ragged Schools

The handbill on the recto of the first leaf (headed 'The Lant Street Sunday Schools. | (In the Lower and Upper Rooms of the same buildings.)') and verso of the second leaf (headed 'The Lant Street Ragged Schools | For Boys and Girls, | Borough, Southwark. (Established A.D. 1862, and continued in active operation.)') of a 12mo bifiolium, with Newton's letter on the recto of the second leaf. Docketed on reverse of the first leaf. Texts clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper.

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Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent.

Author: 
Mary Carpenter
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Red Lodge House | Bristol Sept. 6. 62'.
£36.00

English educationalist and philanthropist (1807-77). One page, 12mo. Good, but on discoloured paper and with remnants of three labels from previous mounting adhering. Reads 'Dear Sir | The parcel went off to-day by Luggage train. It can be opened if more convenient to pack. | Please to let me know which sketch you prefer. The Red Sea, the Distant Pyramids or Garibaldi's Island.'

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