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has cast these [more?] than orphans in Mrs
Bentleys hands. She is without means to
give them lifes necessities. She is depriving
herself of medicines and every comfort
in her fast-ebbing days. For we fear her
trouble is Cancer of the stomach and
unless her daughter aged twenty two years can
procure a position of some kind where
she can assist in at least providing
food for these little ones God alone
knows the end, he knows if these little
ones were taken from my sister and
sent to an asylum that it would only
hasten her death and if you can be
the means dear Mrs Stanford of having
my Niece Mary Bentley appointed to a
position in the Mint no nobler act
would be written in that list of thousands
that you have already done. I came
abroad last November to complete and
bring out a book of useful information
to European travellers that I have been
thinking about for years hoping there by
to better my own provincial condition &
to assist my sister in this fearful load

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