ABSTRACT

When the call of the country sent so many of our brave soldiers to the Crimea, leaving their wives and children in want, the public of England and Scotland nobly responded to their cry of misery, and placed in the hands of a central committee a large sum for their relief. The association discharged the duty with remarkable fidelity and zeal, and instructed its local committees to aid the soldiers’ wives by supplementing the parochial allowances and sending their children to school.