The Incorporated
Lancashire and Cheshire Society
For the Permanent Care of the Feeble-Minded.
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Hon. Sec.: Miss Dendy, M.A.,
13, Clarence Road, Withington, Manchester.
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Hon. Treas.: Sam Gamble, Esq.,
Wilbraham Road, Fallowfield, Manchester.
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Any further communications on the subject of this letter should be addressed to:
Miss Dendy, M.A., 13, Clarence Road, Withington, Manchester.
Telephone: 129 Didsbury.
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December 3 1912.
Dear Professor Pearson,
I am afraid I have been lengthy without being definite. I hope you may be able to get something useful out of what I have written. I do not think that any other new definitions of Feeble-minded have put forward except the one I give you. I know you will have all those that are most commonly in use. We want a new phraseology for the subject pretty badly. I would try again, but am excessively busy just now. I have had a great deal of writing to do for those who have been seeing the N.D.Bill so far on its ill-fated career; and now have been excessively anxious least the Control Bill should be put in its place - of so goodbye to all efficient legislation for years to come.
I wish I could just come and be one of your staff - not in the sense that Miss Elderton is - of course - but just as a clerical worker and collector. I should be so glad to be rid of responsibility and only do what I was told. My lists of cases increase greatly - I have some four thousand now on my card-catalogue. I am finding a great many histories of cancer in the forebears of the F.M.'s but have not collected - or rather sorted out enough cases to be significant from your point of view I think.
With kind regards,
Yours very faithfully,
[signed]Mary Dendy
[handwritten addendum]I shall be a Hamptons for Xmas.
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