Whilst John Lee was serving six months in Exeter Prison for stealing silver from his employer, Colonel Brownlow, Emma Keyse wrote to the Rev. Pitkin offering the prisoner a fresh start: 'I feel much interested in his family and himself: and I have told his mother that I will take him back into my service, and to work in my garden with my gardener for a while, to be able to give him a character, until something desirable may turn up'.

Written by Mike Holgate

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