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Image: Letter from the Deaf Mute Association to F. J. Rose

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Coffee Tavern
Prahran
2/11/80
To Frederick J. Rose Esq.
Dear Sir,
We the undersigned members of the Committee of the Deaf Mute Association have decided to elect you as the President of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Association as you have done much good to the Deaf and Dumb these twenty years and take a great interest in them, we respectfully beg you to accept the office of President.
We are,
Your’s etc.
over.
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Age
Andrew Clarke Chairman
Geo. W. Moore Secretary
A C Muir Treasurer 22
Alexander Wilson 26
Thomas Pattison
David Piper 23
Wm. P. Muir 22
J. T. Bond 23

SOURCE
MS 2839. Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria
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