[Printed handbill by the National Association of Certified Reformatory and Industrial Schools of Great Britain, reproducing a 'Letter from Mr. T. B. Ll. Baker, of Hardwicke Court, Gloucester, to Mr. Wm. Garnett, President of the Association.'

Folio, 2 pp. Printed on one side of a sheet, folded to make a bifolium, with Baker's letter on the recto of the first leaf, and the Association's statement on it, in the form of a letter to its committee (signed by the president William Garnett; manager Thomas Higgin, and superintendent Richard Gorst), on the verso of the second. Text clear and complete. On aged and worn paper. Baker's letter begins: 'My dear Garnett, | I have just been shewn the circular issued by the Reformatory and Refuge Union to the Managers of Certified Schools, of which you wrote to me, but I cannot understand it. For more than 30 years I have been closely connected with the Reformatory movement, and during the earlier part I was on terms of intimacy with nearly all the Reformatory Managers of that day; but my recollection (aided by memoranda and letters written at the time) does not enable me to arrive at the same conclusion with the Secretaries of the Union.' Regarding the position of 'two Unions [...] not in opposition to each other [...] the one taking charge of the Voluntary Refugees, the other of the Schools certified under Government. The former refused - as they had every right to do - to receive Roman Catholic Schools into Union [...] After a few years our National Reformatory Union expanded into the Social Science Association'. The position of Garnett, Higgin and Gorst, as stated in the letter to their committee is summed up in the following paragraph: 'To think that our Reformatory and Industrial Schools have, as a body, given the management of their affairs over into the hands of the Union, and recognised that body as their common parent, is palpably an error on the part of the Union, which, had an affiliation fee been expected from each School, would have been found out long since.' Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC.