Letter from Eliza Armstrong to Mrs. Comb (1885)

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Letter from Eliza Armstrong to Mrs. Comb (1885)

Quoted in Alison Plowden, The Case of Eliza Armstrong: A Child of 13 Bought for £5 (1974)

My dear Mrs Comb, I write these few lines to you hoping you are quite well. I am a good girl. does all that Fanny tells me to. my coton dress is finished and I keeps it very nice and clean.

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