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Title	Charles London Letter to Arvine Wales Regarding Charity School
Subject	Education Schools Quakers Society of Friends
Place	Massillon (Ohio) Stark County (Ohio)
Description	This letter to Arvine Wales from Charles London details a proposal to lay brick work for the Charity School in Kendal, Ohio (now Massillon) for the sum of $890, with plastering work for an additional $440. The letter is one page and measures 8" x 8" (20.32 x 20.32 cm). Upon the deaths of Thomas and Charity Rotch in 1823 and 1824 respectively, the bulk of their estate went to further a dream of Charity's. She called for the establishment of a school for orphans and poor children, "that they be trained up in the habits of industry and economy." The Charity School of Kendal, one of Ohio's earliest vocational schools, operated from 1829 to 1906, educating more than 500 children. The school was located on present-day State Street in Massillon, at the southeast corner of the present Ninth Street North East. The Rotch-Wales Collection comprises several thousand items, including Quaker and abolitionist materials, household remedies and recipes, weather reports and machinery plans, and personal letters of Thomas and Charity Rotch and their family. It contains personal and business correspondence, diaries, documents, accounts, ledgers, and daybooks. A large portion of the collection consists of the personal and business correspondence, documents, and business papers of Arvine Wales I (1785-1854), who accompanied Rotch from Hartford to Ohio in 1811, worked for him, and carried on Rotch's business interests after his death. The papers of his son, Arvine C. Wales (1827-1882), a lawyer and civic leader in Massillon, are also part of the collection.
Creator	London, Charles
Date of Original	January 20, 1842
Collection	Rotch-Wales Collection
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts) C-111-1 Incoming correspondence-Business
Submitting Institution	Massillon Public Library
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om225_1046425_030
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Full Text	[page 1] [corresponds to page 1 of Charles London Letter to Arvine Wales Regarding Charity School] A Wales Esq Sir Having examined the plans of a Building that you intend to Build in Kendle for a school House and advertised for Porposals for said Building I propose to do the Brick Work to said House furnish Brick Lime and Sand and do the work in a good workman like manner for the sum of $890 Dollars Fixing Window Sills and Cap - $10.00 the plastering of said House I porpose to do furnishing all materials and do the work in a good Workman like manner for the sum of -$440 Respecty Yours Chas London Massillon Jany 20 1842

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