Josephine Butler to Albert Rutson

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 106 3JBL/02/09
  • Former Reference
      GB 106 3015
  • Dates of Creation
      5 Mar 1869
  • Physical Description
      1 item

Scope and Content

Typed copy of letter. Written from Liverpool. Feels quite excited with expectation about the horse. Tells him how she spent the money he sent her for her sick people. One of the girls, Fanny whom he had seen had died.

Administrative / Biographical History

The 'Fanny' referred to would be one of the girls in the Home of Rest set up by JB in Liverpool for sick and dying girls whom she rescued from the streets.

'Home of Rest' - For note of this see letter of Feb 1867. 2 fragments sent to her niece Edith Leupold by JB