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"The Children must be without deformity, and generally healthy and strong in mind and body. As the institution must partake of the character of a public Orphanage, it is desired to conduct it generally on the principles of well-known Orphan Asylums in England. If subscriptions in reply to this appeal are such as to justify the attempt, it is proposed to open the Diocesan School for the purposes of an Orphanage next Midsummer, and I respectfully beg you to bring this communication before gentlemen who are likely to give their support to so benevolent an object, and shall be greatly obliged by a reply, which will enable us to form an opinion what assistance may be probably expected from your locality. Communications are requested to be addressed to the Rev. Canon Beach, M.A., S. Paul's College, Hongkong."
The circular is dated January 30, 1869. The appeal must have met with a prompt response, for the orphanage was established in the course of that year.
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