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but I must say it was with the greatest pleasure I read about you in the article in Lloyd's Sunday News, but my one regret is that this has not been brought forward sooner or it may have saved me months of misery, but I really ought to explain my position. I am a railway signalman with only a small wage. I have been married between eight and nine years and I am now left with five little children, the last one proving too much for my poor wife's strength, and now the poor woman is in —— Asylum, but happily is recovering nicely from her mental breakdown. She has now been there a matter of ten months, and I must leave you to imagine my awful misery and sometimes the thought that it is my fault; it is very hard when one has tried their best. I understand that there is now a likelihood of her returning within the next few weeks, and the doctor informs me that there must be no more family (and God knows I do not want any more for I have more now than my wage will keep properly), or he would not say what the consequence would be, but yet he never offers any advice, so seeing your letter and the article I decided to write to you. If I have taken too much liberty in doing so I trust you will excuse me and this I am sure