I am still searching for any information regarding the records of this Society. I shall recount the entire story which we know so far and hopefully it may be read by someone who is able to assist us to find the records for this Society or it may just help someone to remember something else !! > My grandmother Mavis Haslett and her brother St Elmo Fortescue Haslett were found together with their mother Edith Haslett (nee Corbett) starving and homeless at Howrah Railway Station. They had arrived from Bombay and had been living in the railway room for four days in August 1908. Apparently Edith's husband William Fortescue Haslett had died in December 1907 of pneumonia. The children were admitted to Dr Grahams Homes with the exclamations in both letters and documents stating that "the children are pure white". (another story here too, I think!! As if William was their father as listed on their birth certificates, this would seem a strange remark !!) Payment for the children's education and keep at Dr Grahams Homes was made by Edith's brother Jim Corbett (well-known for his hunting exploits in India). I have copies of documents from The Society for the Protection of Children in India setting out the story as above and requesting admission for the children into the Homes. The Society has the following mission under its title - "A purely Humanitarian Organization conducted in the interests of Children in every race and Creed." and the office bearers were : President - Raja Sir Harnam Singh, K.C.I.E. Vice-President - The Venerable The Archdeacon of Calcutta Hon.Treasurer: J.W.A. Bell, Esq., 16, Strand Road, Calcutta Correspondent in England: Rev. J.P. Ashton, M.A., 7, Tillington Terrace, Clive Vale, Hastings Secretary: Capt. W.J. Clifford, Office:135, Dhurrumtollah Street, Calcutta (no indication of when the Society was first founded, unfortunately) Once the children were removed to the Homes, Edith was apparently taken to hospital. There must have been some official records of these actions as there is further correspondence in December 1908 between the Society and the Homes when Edith attempts to gain control of the children and is told she will need a Magisterial order to resume guardianship. So far, we have not been able to find out why Edith was removed from their guardianship. Both my grandmother and her brother were told by the Corbetts (Jim and Maggie) that Edith was dead. Both children were sent to the colonies - Mavis to New Zealand as a housemaid and St Elmo joined the merchant navy in Hong Kong. Thanks to a lister who lived in Nugegoda we now know that Edith was alive although "dirt poor" and living in a garage in Nugegoda, Ceylon in the 1940s. Jim Corbett continued to pay an allowance to Edith through until at least the 1940s without ever letting her children know she was still alive. A fabulous story so far, isn't it ? It would be truly amazing to find out when Edith really did die and what was actually the reason for her to be removed from the children and cast out from a well-known and well-off family and left to live out a very lonely existence in another country. We live in hope that someone out there still knows more and will remember something somehow ....... kind regards Jill Gordon New Zealand