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L'Académie des sciences morales et politiques a décerné à m. Victor Modeste une médaille de 1500 fr. sur le concours de 1858. cf. 4th prelim. leaf. ; Mode of access: Internet.

[p. 1] ; column 2 ; 5 ¾ col. in. ; The Rochester Democrat describes Nauvoo and the temple's architecture and baptismal font. Mormons live in "squalid poverty." William Smith is the High Priest of the Mormons "until Joe the second comes of age."

Dinah Craik (1826–1887) was a prolific writer of fiction, poetry and essays. She was best known for her novels, which appropriated well-worked narratives of individuals triumphing over adversity through hard work and moral integrity against a backdrop of industrialisation and the ascent of the middle classes. The most successful, John Halifax, Gentleman, tells the tale of a boy who works his way out of poverty. Craik herself was familiar with hardship: her father Thomas Mulock, a nonconformist minister, had spent periods confined to a lunatic asylum, and abandoned his children after his wife's death in 1854. In this work (originally published serially in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts), Craik provided support and advice for single women like herself. She was highly critical of learned helplessness and advocated independence and cross-class sympathy, believing women should 'lead active, intelligent, industrious lives: lives complete in themselves'

Robert Pashley (1805–59), lawyer, economist, traveller, and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is famous for his travel memoirs as well as his legal achievements. First published in 1852, his history of pauperism and the poor laws in England analyses the history of poverty and the various attempts at reform, including legislation in the reign of Elizabeth I, the statute of Charles II for the Removal of the Poor, and the pauper legislation of 1834. In the final chapters, Pashley asserts the necessity for a total repeal of the existing legislation, including the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, arguing that the provisions for raising and administering relief to paupers should be consolidated into one statute and suggesting a national levy on property to aid poor relief. Pashley's work was influential, although reform of the system did not begin until the creation of the Local Government Board in 1871

S. S. Lewis writes to Alden Partridge regarding Elizabeth Garey Butler, the daughter of James Garey, a veteran of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, and her son, James Garey Butler; Partridge previously assisted her and her mother and her father's death; would he take an interest again and educate the boy? ; Transcription by Joseph Byrne. Transcriptions may be subject to error.