Workhouse inmate Mary Jane promoting charitable work

A postcard promoting the work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). Its caption reads Mary Jane, who is a deaf and blind inmate of a Workhouse in Devonshire, was the means of starting the Candidates Five Shilling Fund in connection with the S.P.G. She is shown sitting at a table, reading by touch (probably from Braille)

Benevolence Braille Candidates Caption Charitable Deaf Devonshire Disability Disabled Fund Gospel Inmate Knitted Promoting Propagation Shilling Woollen

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