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FRIENDLY VISITING AMONG THE POOR

A Handbook for Charity Workers

by

MARY E. RICHMOND

General Secretary of the Charity Organization
Society of Baltimore







New York
The MacMillan Company

London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd.

1907

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1899,
by The MacMillan Company.

Set up and electrotyped January, 1899.

Reprinted November, 1899; February, 1903;
  February, 1906; November, 1907.




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PREFACE


This little volume is intended as a handbook for those who are
beginning to do charitable work in the homes of the poor, whether as
individuals or as rep