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    OPEN COUNCIL* 429

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    To the Editor of the English Woman *s Jo...

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    To The Editor Of The English Woman*S Jou...

    read and money to hel could p one not another possibl and y be above better all spent to ; find I trust the we means shall for all educating be found '

    the one examp an y other le . set I them trust , b also , Elizabeth , that , women Blackwell ph , ysicians who will was nev a thoroug er lose hl si y g well ht of

    prepared read _English to meet scholar the before difficulties y she began of her the great stud enterprise , y of medicine , whatever , and form was they thus

    might assume . I amMadam , Your , obedient Servant , A . S .

    Open Council* 429

    OPEN COUNCIL * 429

    To The Editor Of The English Woman *S Jo...

    To the Editor of the English Woman * _s Journal * Mada _^ _jc ,

    with Occupation advantage for to women the public of different be afforded degrees in of the education library , of mig the ht perh British aps Museum 1 . The , esp proportion ecially in of the lad readin y-readers g-room is . considerable attention , and of it the cannot be

    officials doubted their that , comfort notwithstanding would be the promoted courtesy were and some of the attendants present of their own , sex . The duties to be performed appear to be such as women are

    well 2 . fitted A smal to l discharge number . of women who should attend as authorised copyists would probably meet with remunerating occupation . We know of an

    inwould stance which have been recentl both y welcome occurred and in which liberall the y pai assistance d for , and of there such a must person be many students who would gladly spare their own time in making extracts

    if 3 a . competent As transl person ators likewise were at hand well-educated whom they women could mi emp ght loy be . employed by persons who in the course of their , researches in the library have occasion to

    consult 4 . A works still hi in gher forei branch gn languages of labor with might which be pursued they are by unacquainted women of adequate . throug mental h power them and to the cultivation public . , An with individual great advantage residing to at literary a distance persons from and the trouble and

    both metropolis of time must and often money be incurred at a loss by how a journey , without to the London to investigate expenditure a subject such involving investigation reference be to essential works contained especiall onl if y the in individual our national be library engaged , yet in

    literary pursuits ; may and it would be , a great boon y to him to feel assured that an dent a letter attendant of stating the British competent the information Museum to reading he re it - quired room and , whose , would if addressed charge be placed need to the in not the superinten be hands so hig of h -

    as to make that item of the procure transaction , a matter for consideration . p accepted loyment If only and of a date s willing uch had an l attendant to pai be d ascertained for as has been or an indicated authority would verified be thankful , the em ly

    -5 . It Las been said y that the , cost . of this accommodation to the -public would labor be very far moderate exceeds . the It demand would be because so because the the supp ation ly of proposed educated needs female no

    being capital in , so itself that the consonant class who to would ; the tastes share of it cultivated occup is very large women ; and they because would gladly avail themselves of it in preference to less agreeable , though perhaps

    better It is paid scarcel , labor y necessary . to say that it is not proposed that the copiers , for course translators and them for be their to remunerated , be et charges c . appointed , should to by be be or individual regul sal licensed aried ated officers b emp b y y a loyers the settled of authorities the ; tariff but museum it . mi of . g the ht They be institution desirable would of ,

    I remain , Madam Yours , , etc ., B . L . S . B .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 429, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/69/