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The collection includes various documents relating to the Society, such as minute books, visiting books, and reports and correspondence from the Ladies Committee. It also features annual reports from other similar institutions nationwide.

Minute books detailing procedings at various meetings of the York Penitentiary Society. Also includes 2 minute books for Clifton Holme in particular.

Visiting Books recording visits to shelters and buidlings associated with the York Penitentiary Society. Includes Case book, Matron's Report book, "Jottings book", Register of Inmates and 'shelter reports'.

Matron's Report Book. Includes 12 loose notes and newspaper cuttings.

Annual reports in their published form (some in volumes, others as loose, singular reports) and records of procedings from annual meetings of the York Penitentiary Society.

Minutes recording procedings of annual meetings of York Penitentiary Society (typed with draft copies), including Reports of the Committee and a cutting from the Yorkshire Gazette on the subject of building the York Penitentiary. Also includes minutes from a "Meeting of the Subscribers to a Fund for... Hull Penitentiary" from February 1822.

Volume containing printed annual Reports and Proceedings. Includes at end 1860 and 1861 annual report of York Society for Prevention of Vice and Depravity.

Loose annual reports. Incomplete series.

Documents from the York Penitentiary Ladies Committee including meeting minutes, financial documents, reports and correspondence, and legal and operational documents.

Meeting minutes from the York Penitentiary Society Ladies Committee

York Penitentiary Society Ladies Committee Minute Book.

York Penitentiary Society Ladies Committee Minute Book.

York Penitentiary Society Ladies Committee Minute Book.

York Penitentiary Society Ladies Committee Minute Book.

York Penitentiary Society Ladies Committee Minute Book.

York Penitentiary Society Ladies Committee Minute Book.

York Penitentiary Society Ladies Committee Minute Book.

York Penitentiary Society Ladies Committee Minute Book. Also contains a number of loose notes.

York Penitentiary Society Ladies Committee meeting minutes in handwritten note form.

Documents relating to various financial and business matters of the York Penitentiray Society Ladies Committee.

Report and letter from J. P. Pritchett relating to materials and costs of raising the boundary wall of the Penitentiary.

Tenant's rent book for 15 South Parade, York.

Treasurer's receipt for sale of stock.

Statement of assets and financial position of Thomas Yates, junior of Layerthorpe Coal Depot (bankrupt).

List of securities belonging to the Penitentiary Society in the hands of Beckett & Co., Bankers, York.

Account book showing donations to the society and expenses of printing tracts and opening the refreshment rooms.

Three pieces of paper containing notes of money from the Marriot Bequest.

Correspondence relating to the bequest to the York Penitentiary Society of £500 from Major R. W. Richardson.

Two pieces of paper containing accounts and rent paid by four men.

Memorandum from H. Bushell (agricultural engineer) in which he agreed to rent the stable attached to the Penitentiary from July 1880.

Summaries of annual receipts and expenditure.

2 letters from Burland and Son (Carriers) relating to conveyence of goods to and from the Refuge. Also includes not from the bank about a cheque paid in to the Penitentiary account.

Rent receipts and vouchers. Bills for household expenses, building work and repairs to laundry.

Annual statement of receipts and expenditure on behalf of the Penitentiary from L. Dewhurst (rent collector).

Contract note for sale of stock.

Monthly and annual reports and correspondence relating to the York Penitentiary Ladies Committee.

Includes:

List showing the number of girls sent to Leeds and Hull Penitentiaries for years between 1822 and 1843, with notes of those doing well or not.

Report of deputation sent to visit the Female Penitentiaries at Hull and Leeds, describing the premises, organisation of the work, wages and duties of staff and rules of the institutions and discipline of the girls. (11 pages manuscript). [a copy may be held in Minute Book 1].

Correspondence and reports relating to the York Penitentiary Society. Includes leaflet on Children's Aid Society and leaflet from Inspection of Homes Association, London about the inspection of laundries under Factory and Workshop Act.

Correspondence and reports relating to the York Penitentiary Society. Includes certificate of completion of 8 additional bedrooms for the Penitentiary in Bishophill, and correspondence relating to the post of Matron of the Shelter.

Correspondence and reports relating to the York Penitentiary Society. Includes minutes from meeting of the Building Sub-Committee, list of salaries, minutes of meeting of York Refuge and Shelter (13th June 1911), and correspondence relating to proposals for Ladies Committee to have equal status with Gentlemans Committee.

Two sanitary notices to William Simpson of The Cresent, Blossom Street relating to the houses in Skeldergate.

2 letters from Edwin Grey and William Whytehead concerning the appointment of new Trustees of Penitentiary property on Bishophill. Also included a copy of part of a document concerning the replacement of Trustees.

Circulars from the charities; Rating Exemption Society, London. Also partially completed form by York Penitentiary.

Two letters relating to the Marriott bequest.

Drafts of bye-laws and handwritten note for the new shelter.

2 letters relating to Penitentiary property and a ntoice from the bank of money raised by the York Gala Committee.

Matron's draft reports from 1881, 1883, 1884 and 1886.

Correspondence from the NSPCC, former inmates and in relation to the Inebriates Act (1898). Includes a table of attendance at Committee Meetings.

Mostly correspondence. Also Memorandum of events in April 1901, Minutes of joint Gentleman/Ladies Committee (1901) and annual reports of Home of Refuge, Exeter, and of the Lincoln and Lincolnshire Home.

Correspondence and reports relating to the York Penitentiary Society. Also includes correspondence relating to Marriot bequest and the purchase of 42 Bishophill.

Correspondence and reports relating to the York Penitentiary Society. Includes first annual report of the Inspection of Homes Association.

Correspondence and reports relating to the York Penitentiary Society. Includes list of donations to the Penitentiary and leaflet titled "Woman's Mission to Women" from the Female Aid Society and Female Mission to the Fallen, London.

Correspondence and reports relating to the York Penitentiary Society. Includes printed leaflet from the Female Aid Society titled "Notes on work amongst the fallen and cautionary list".

Documents relating to legal and operational matters of the York Penetentiary Society.

York Penitentiary Society Shelter Case Book, detailing the women staying there in alphabetical order.

York Penitentiary Society form to be signed by any woman entering the Penitentiary. By signing the form they were declaring their wish to abandon their sinful life and conform to the rules of the Penitentiary for the next 2 years.

Book of lectures titled "The Life of Temptation" by Rev. George Boddym M.A.

Draft letter to the Archbishop relating to the 1898 Inebriates Act and how it will affect the York Penitentiary Society.

Printed notice of motion and letter describing the alteration to the constitution, which states that there will be an equal number of men and women on the York Penitentiary Society Committee. Also includes envelope containing voting papers.

Circulars, forms and correspondence relating to the Factory Act. Includes a timetable of girls working in the laundry.

Forms relating to the payment of Land Tax by the York Penitentiary Society.

Correspondence relating to the National Insurance Act (1911), and the York Penitentiary Society's application for an exemption. Includes a copy of Section 51 of the National Insurance Act 1911.

3 posters titled "York Penitentiary Society Rules for the conduct of the Women", plus one draft copy.

3 York Penitentiary Society Rules leaflets.

Various annual reports and circulars from nationwide institutions that were similar to the York Penitentiary Society. Includes more detailed documents such as meeting minutes from the York Society for the Prevention and Discouragement of Vice and Profaneness, and the York Society for the Prevention of Youthful Depravity. It appears that these reports etc were sent in answer to a circular letter from the York Penitentiary Society requesting information in connection with a demand from the York Ladies Committee to have equal representation with the gentlemen on the Executive Committee (on which they were originally not entitled to sit).

Various documents relating to the York Society for the Prevention and Discouragement of Vice and Profaneness, including annual reports, annual meeting resolutions, list of subscribers, treasurer's summary annual reports and bank statements.

York Society for the Prevention and Discouragement of Vice and Profaneness Committee's Annual Reports and resolutions of the annual meeting. Also included lists of subscribers and treasurer's summary annual reports.

York Society for the Prevention and Discouragement of Vice and Profaneness Treasurer's annual bank statements of the Society's balance with Messrs. Wilson Tweedy and Co.

Cambridge Female Refuge Annual Reports of 1913 and 1914, and an explanatory booklet titled "A Statement of a Few Important Facts to the Subscribers to the Cambridge Female Refuge", printed in October 1851. Also includes a letter

List of Preventitive and Rescue Homes, Associations and Workers in the Diocese of Canterbury, featuring their Annual Report of 1914. Also includes a letter.

Annual Report of S. Mary's Home for Penitents for the Diocese of Carlisle, also includes letter.

2 letters explaining management of Female Refuge, North Parade House, Cheltenham

94 th Annual Report of the Devon & Exeter Home of Refuge.