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published on August 9, 1712, in ''The Spectator'', a London newspaper but appearing in this link in a book about English grammar. The sampler ends with the words ”Anne Jennings wrough this sampler by the directions of Mistress Parker School Mistress in the Orphan School near Calcutta in Bengal East Indias”
</ref> [http://www.archive.org/stream/samplerstapestry00huisrich#page/34/mode/2up/search/Calcutta ''Samplers & tapestry embroideries''], page 35 by Marcus Bourne Huish 1913 (Archive.org) describes a group of six samplers completed in 1797, also under the supervision of Mistress Parker, with an [http://www.archive.org/stream/samplerstapestry00huisrich#page/n33/mode/2up/search/Calcutta illustration]. These samplers are now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.<ref> ''Stitched in Adversity: Samplers of the Poor''</ref>. This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2010-05/1275031324 post] requests further information.
* A newspaper item which names 12 children in the hospital at 28 February 1806 is shown in [[Orphan newspaper items]]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=4UNBAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA4-PA487 Rules and Regulations c 1851] concerning admission. (Scroll down page) ''Bengal Almanc for 1851'', page 487
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*Maureen Evers, "Four Orphan Schools in Calcutta and the Lawrence Military Asylum Sanawar, Part 1: History," ''FIBIS Journal'' No 22 (Autumn 2009), pages 1-14. "Part II: parents, conditions, prospects" ''FIBIS Journal'' No 23 (Spring 2010), pages 5-14. For details of how to access these articles, see [[FIBIS Journals]].
