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Now I think a few words of thanks are due to my friend—our friend—Julia Dawson. Nobody knows how hard Julia has worked for these Vans. She started the idea. She got the money. She got the Vans. She arranged the tours. All the worry and all the work have fallen to her, and she has gone through it
288:(of which she was the first National Secretary), which aimed to provide food and entertainment to children in poverty. She was also pioneering in the Clarion Handicraft Guild, which she established in 1902. Dawson had been inspired by a letter from Godfrey Blount who enthused about the ideas of
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