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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1409, 21 August 1878, Page 3

At a meeting in London of the Howard AsFOciation, a curious incident was mentioned by one of the committee, who, on visiting a provincial prison some years Bgo, found one of the prisoners (probably waiting trial) busily engaged in writing. On inquiry in to the nature of his literary labours, he was informed that it consisted in the composition of sermons for clergymen out«ide.

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