2052

24

E. N. M., D. Co., Md., July 2, 1866.
W. C. PALMER, Esq—
Dear Sir :

I herewith furnish you my first report of A. A. She has
been to school the last three months, riding with my boys
three miles to school, in town, every morning, and returning
after four o'clock in the afternoon. During the winter she
has been taught in the family. Her advancement has not
been such as I had hoped, yet she is acquiring habits of study
and application, and is obtaining an insight into her studies
that will enable her to comprehend her lessons more readily,
and thereby make them pleasures, rather than tasks.

Her health and spirits are fine; she has been unwell but
two or three days since she has been with us, and then, we
think, from indulgence in eating.

Her duties in the house and with the family are better un-
derstood by the ladies of the house, and from them I have
satisfactory evidence of a desire on the part of A. to do her
duty; but, child-like, very neglectful—and inclined to play
before completing the little labors she may have to perform
towards housekeeping.

We have most difficulty in teaching her to be choice in her
associates. She is disposed naturally to make friends with
the rude and wild at school—and at home to keep company
with the servants. When she becomes older, and can under-
stand our reasons for these things, I shall have no fears that
she will continue therein. I have spoken of her weaknesses;
she has her virtues.

We have found her strictly honest and truthful—remark-
ably so; and when we say this, we say all that these words-
can convey. We are, on the whole, pleased with her life and
conduct the past six months; and we may congratulate our-
selves that we have been so fortunate in obtaining just such a
character as she now promises to be—who will be a credit to
those that may raise her, to her mother, and to the Society
that.has taken charge of her. Thinking the above compre-
hends all that you wish in your letter of inquiry,

lam, yours, &c., R. F. T.

[Note.—The mother of these children has visited one of
them; and heard directly and satisfactorily from the other.

BALTIMORE, September 6, 1866.

I respectfully make application to the Executive Committee
of the "Children's Aid Society of Baltimore" to receive S.
P., who will be ten years of age January 1,1867. I am
unable to provide for my children. My husband is a convict
in the Maryland Penitentiary. R. P.

The following letter has been received from the foster
parents of the above mentioned child, in her excellent coun-
try home: