Objects of Substance – Confidential Report Book

carefully ruled into columns and, in elegant script, state: the name of the staff member; joined staff; salary; ‘increased’ (stating any increase or decrease in salary where applicable); subjects; time unoccupied (Mrs Burke and the Music Mistress, listed as none!); and remarks.

1912 Milisent Wilkinson

It is in the remarks column where the reader is mystified — as the column, which clearly was used, has been totally erased. Perhaps this was a mistake made by the Headmistress, Miss Milisent