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HOUG/E/L/1/14
Title
Letter from Mary Carpenter to Richard Monckton Milnes
Date(s)
- 3 Feb. 1851 (Creation)
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4 ff.
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Scope and content
Bristol. - Seeking information for her work on reformatory schools; sources already consulted; her own work locally; Mr Fletcher's report to the Education Council; inability of ragged schools to provide the moral teaching necessary for true reformation without proper state support; recommends provision of schools 'on the Aberdeen and Glasgow plan' and juvenile reformatories to keep children out of prisons.