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    390 SOCIETY FOB PROMOTING THE

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    The Establishment Of This Society Was Co...

    I have been incessantl _y employed from ten in the morning till seven , and , on amining two occasions deeds . , till nine o ' clock at night , arranging , preparing , or

    exhint ness of " law s Of ; about - suggestions copy course the ing a impossibilit great being that many accomp we shall objections of lished our send undertaking b have in y the women been work started : nig fears behin ht-work about d about time ( the as our ; if more feasibilit all correct than law y - -

    copying was obliged to be done y under cover of the night ) : so perhaps a list of the work that has been finished and sent home during the past _iveeh from this office may be desirable ; and no doubt the friends of this movement

    will copied be ( as besides interested two very to hear long as manuscri we to tell pts , , and that forty since circular last Friday letters we ) have 3 Drafts of Leases ,

    4 1 Briefs Draft , Surrender of Lease ,

    2 1 Cop Bill ies of of Costs Statement , , 5 Accounts of Personal Estates

    4 Copies of Affidavits , , To which be added 6 _JSTotices theto to us a Banking licated Company matter . of turning three

    affidavits into may a ' Brief for further , Directions , comp . ' sty ' le ' _ISTo of w workmanshi all this work has but been undoubtedl accomplished in a , we most will creditable not say in manner the highest b

    eight young women , who p , , as many months y ago , had , with perhaps two , ex y - lives ceptions . , never even seen a draft , or law paper of any description , in their

    11 Of course it tools : the writers some weeks to unlearn the usual feminine spider-legged fashion of inditing ; some weeks more to decipher the solicitor ' s that come signs in , , actual contractions the first work trials , was and our easil technical success y accomp was terms lished in ; a but great , thoug these measure h we difficulties are owing bound once to to the admit over un-

    failing courtesy and unwearied kindness , of those firms who , supplied us with clerks our first connected work ; and with but those for that firms courtesy I must , and have we had must a also different add , that tale of the indeed to have told this evening . B , their advicetheir very assistanceand their

    instructions which nothing , we but sh our all own , I b carelessness elieve , y soon and establish inattention , a regular can destroy law , business . Al- , houses ready we woul are d workin intrust g work for five to firm our care s , and if I they have knew no doubt of the but existence that many of other this

    kindl office . y name I therefore our efforts particularl to their y several beg that solicitors the friends and acquaintances of this society . will that " We there dare is here not pretend as in , printing in defending a deficiency the opening of workers of this a trade to women the ,

    , , , cry among intrinsicall masters for men more ; valuable or that woman than ' that s work of the here other , as in sex the . telegrap Nowe h must offices take , is our ground y on the lowlier but not less important fact , that , while , thousands of

    occupations young men , and are at to the be seen same contentedl time thousands y employed of young at sedentary " women are and to womanl be seen y anxiously inquiring where they are to earn their daily bread , ( query , —did

    of any th one at expression except the ?) worker it becomes for dail perfectl y bread y leg ever itimate full , y and enter an into imperative the meanin duty g port in the life latter and , to remain avail respectable themselves members of every of opening society by which they may

    sup-, . to " our I mi attempting ght have this answered work at in greater particular length but the I different _believe the objections facts I offered have

    world given . are worth a thousand of the very best , opinions and reasons in the

    " I am more and more impressed with the conviction that women need

    390 Society Fob Promoting The

    390 _SOCIETY FOB PROMOTING THE

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/30/