Dear Mr Craik I see that your ‘house’ appears in the list of subscribers to the Surgical Aid Society. Do you think one or more letters could be spared to me? A little child was sent from the Society for protecting Waifs and Strays with a lame foot paralysed after measles- to be boarded at a cottage here. She is now in the Orthopaedic hospital, but she requires a boot and irons, and the expense is ... continue reading

My dear Mr Moor I have a very kind woman, Mrs James Hoskins who has brought up 6 daughters and two waifs and strays very well - is a Communicant &c She has a vacancy now having lost an old aunt who lived with her and having now only a brother and sister 8 and 7, would be glad of another child.

Only the Waifs and Strays specify that other or lodgers must not be taken, meaning ... continue reading