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    244 STRAY LETTERS ON EMIGRATION.

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    « Our Scheme For Promoting The Emigratio...

    unfortunate women who desire to reform , and this institution is not supported so well as it inight be . If funds would allow , naany improvements might be

    effected , and facilities given to those to reform who , for many reasons , it would be inexpedient to place in the same department as the worst of their class , and yet who would be more suitably placed in that institution than in

    the " Home , " which professes to be for respectable women and children When the Archdeacon of Geelong arrives , I shall no doubt hear from him any suggestion that may have occurred to him to further viewsbut I

    can but tell you at present , that depression is felt everywhere your , and , that I cannot point out to you any place of residence for governesses solely ; there are respectable boarding-housesno doubtand one of the Registry

    Office-, , keepers , Mrs . Forest , states that she should like to combine a " Home" with her office , but this is only to be , and perhaps will always be in the future . There is nothing , as an individual , I should like better , than to see a

    governess' and servant's " Home" flourish ; and I still hope that the Industrial Home Committee" may think again upon the matter ; at present all our energies are required to get up this " Home" for the premises In which the

    poor women live are very inadequate to their , wants . This letter was written too late for you to make any alteration in your plan of sending young women in August . I can only say with regard to

    them , that I will give the utmost publicity to their having been sent by Miss Kye ; and that if their testimonials are satisfactory , I will do my best to happy obtain to situations affordand for from them my . Advice husband , as ' s far experience as I can and give knowled It , I shall ge be of most most

    of the respectable , part of the community , I should no doubt be enabled to tell them something of those who might be willing to accept their services . But again I must say , that neither governesses nor shopwoinen are those

    most wanted in the colony , unless they would be willing- —and not only willing , but Jit—to take subordinate situations . An intelligent woman would who be able are to sent adap here t . herself I fear to I circumstances must have trespassed , but there greatl are y on comparativel your time y but few

    I did not know how to make my letter shorter . With my earnest wishes , that you may prosper in your benevolent endeavors , and assurances that no one more than myself would rejoice to find them successful ,

    Believe me , dear Madam , very truly yours , Li . J . A'BECKETT . It -will be seenby weighing the substance of these various

    , letters—firstly , how many intelligent ladies , wives of clergymen and othersthere are in our various colonies who take an interest in this

    , question of female emigration , and are willing to do what they can ; secondlyhow exceedingly afraid they are of having useless women

    , , fit only for one kind of headwork , and no kind of handwork , thrown upon their protection ; and thirdly , that for activecleverready

    , , people , able and willing to take their share when required of the inevitable manual exertion of colonial life , which falls on ladies

    almost as surely as on the" class beneath them , there await comfort , competence , and respect . M . S . K .

    B . It . P .

    244 Stray Letters On Emigration.

    244 STRAY _LETTERS ON EMIGRATION .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/28/