Mother Donit Fore the Best: Correspondence of a Nineteenth-Century Orphan Asylum - Paperback
Mother Donit Fore the Best: Correspondence of a Nineteenth-Century Orphan Asylum - Paperback
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by Judith A. Dulberger (Author)
These letters from the Albany Orphan Asylum in New York demonstrate how institutions in the late 19th century provided a social service. The volume comprises letters from parents to their children and to the asylum superintendents, as well as letters from children placed out to indenture.
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'Mother Donit fore the Best' is a touching collection of letters from the Albany Orphan Asylum in upstate New York-letters from parents to their children and to the asylum superintendent, as well as letters from children placed out on indenture and away from their families.
