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Excerpt from Our Monthly Letter, 1913

Daisy’s Cosmopolitan Correspondence Club was interesting to many deaf people. Magazines such as Our Monthly Letter in Victoria, The Silent Worker in the USA and The British Deaf Times all published comments and articles about it.

Transcript of article in Our Monthly Letter:
Deaf Correspondence Club
Last December Mrs. J. E. Muir received the budget [package] of the Cosmopolitan Correspondence Club safely. She started it last June and it passed successively through the hands of Mlle Yvonne Pitrois and Miss Egan & Desmond of France; Mr Brodie of Scotland; Mrs Balis of Canada; Miss B. Edgar of Ohio; Mrs Schuyler Long of Iowa; Miss Annabel Kent of New Jersey. The letters were most interesting to read, the writers of which described their lives, their work, and the conditions of the deaf in their countries. Mlle Yvonne Pitrois who is a gifted authoress, sends many kind wishes to the deaf of Australia in whom she is greatly interested. She intends writing an article to French deaf papers, entitled “The Paradise of the Deaf in Australia”.

Source
Our Monthly Letter [magazine of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society of Victoria], Vol. 5, No. 6, Feb. 1913. From the collection of the Victorian Deaf Community (Expression Australia).

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Our Monthly Letter [magazine of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society of Victoria], Vol. 5, No. 6, Feb. 1913. From the collection of the Victorian Deaf Community (Expression Australia).

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