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Copy letter to the Hon Miss Waldegrave, 1863
Papers of Miss Elizabeth Copley
Elizabeth Mary Copley (ca.1801-1887) was the eldest daughter of Sir Joseph Copley of Sprotborough, Yorks. Besides numerous relatives, Miss Copley had a wide circle of highly connected female friends and these friendships are reflected in her voluminous correspondence. She was involved in many religious and charitable enterprises but two predominate in her papers - a Protestant mission to the Catholics of Ireland and an educational mission, also with a Protestant ethos, to the women and girls of Syria and the Lebanon. The Syrian initiative had been begun by Mrs Elizabeth Thompson and her sisters and catered for a mixture of races and religions with a strong bias towards conversion to Protestantism. Miss Copley visited Syria just once.
One means of raising funds for the schools was to persuade English patrons
to “adopt” Syrian orphans at a cost of £12 per annum.
Here Miss Waldegrave is given news of her adopted daughter, Saada
Ibrahim.
GRE/G19/3/2
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