Dear Henry –

I enclose you a printed paper which has got Sir C. L.’s ^<1> name inserted in the Committee but the paper itself has been some time printed & therefore the numbers of the children who have been sent is not correct – The Society have now had above 400 through its hands, 30 of them girls, 12 more of the latter are to sail for Cape Town under the care of a good Matron in ten days – Princess Victoria ^<2> is the Patroness of our girls asylum, singularly enough to be established in the very house & grounds at Chiswick where we were all educated if you want either girls or boys emigrated under good care, provided with clothes & sent to a preparatory school ^<3> first only pay their journey to Town & give us £12 · 10s each & we will take charge of any girls or boys from 10 to 14 –

With kind remembrances to M^rs Talbot

Y^rs truly

A. M. Murray

Green Street

March 31^st

Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r M.P.
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham

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Notes:

1. Sir Charles Lemon (1784–1868), politician & scientist; WHFT’s uncle.

2. Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom (1837–1901), Empress of India (1876–1901).

3. School that prepared them for a working life in the Colonies.