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Letter from Henrietta Ann Matthews to her brother, Thomas J Hooper. Sent from Paddington Station. Schools; apprenticeship/schooling for daughter Mary.

13 Sept 1868

From: 1868 To: 1868

Mr Soward can do nothing for Bancrofts. Hopes he may be able to assist with Mary “by apprenticing her to something it is called “Pennoyers Gifts to apprentice Boys or Girls to any suitable Business for Boys for 7 years or Girls for 5 or 7 at the age 14 for either but girls may be apprenticed until they are 15 or 16 years of age”. I could not see the principal of the ladies school nor know where it was but I am to hear in a few days. I was told the practice now is for governesses not to pay some of the masters, but to allow them to send a certain number of pupils and make their own charge to the parents. I went to the Borough and saw both principals one Wesleyan the other Established church, only 3 apprentices, a very strict house keeper, not allowed out unless they say where they are going and then must be in to time. One master said that if any fault could be found in their rules it was, that they were too strict; hours from 7 in morning till 8 at night, Saturdays till 10 at night, they do not like the lads to have much if any pocket money as they are not allowed to go out to spend it, boys pay for their own washing and clothes. I got on famously through London thanks to your guidance and therefore I called on Mrs Greenaway and she says she thinks if I write to ask Benamin [Matthews?] to help he will do so, but that he does not like to offer to assist me; so I hope to write when I get home he may help with the St Anne’s school or do you think it would be worth trying to get Mary into the Llanduff for such a short time.”

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Matthews, Henrietta Ann,
Hooper, Thomas J.,
Soward, George James,
Matthews, Mary Priscilla,
Greenaway,
Matthews, Benjamin

family correspondence, schools