Fabbri,
Treasurer; G. Albinola and V. Fabbricotti, Esqs., and Dr. G. Cecarini.

The Treasurer, Signor Fabbri, with that kind and unassuming liberality
for which he is distinguished, to his annual subscription has added
fifty tons of coal to the most deserving, thus relieving their
sufferings to a great extent, and establishing a powerful inducement for
indifferent parents. The Committee also reported to the Italian
Government what was taking place for the advantage of its destitute and
ignorant subjects in this city, and obtained some subsidy and other
encouragement from that quarter. At the head of the Ministerial
Department for Foreign Affairs was, at that period. Cav. M. Cerruti, a
gentleman of learning and most enlightened views, who has done much in
Italy to popularize public instruction as the speediest and surest means
of promoting the prosperity of the nation. This gentleman having lately
been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary from his to this country,
visited, last October, our School, and met with the hearty reception he
deserves as one of our patrons. His visit elicited the following letter
from the distinguished Italian statesman to Rev. C. L. Brace, Secretary
of the Children's Aid Society:--

"'CLARENDON HOTEL, October 29, 1867.

"'DEAR SIR--I beg leave to be allowed to express, in behalf of the
Italian Government and nation I have the honor to represent at
Washington, the most heartfelt thanks for the Christian and noble
undertaking unpretentiously assumed and most successfully prosecuted by
the Children's Aid Society for the improvement of the poor class of the
Italian population in your city. My visit to the Italian School under
your charge, on the 23d instant, was to me a source of high
gratification, and convinced me that, by your efficient and humane
exertions, hundreds of poor Italian children have been redeemed from
vagrancy and turned into industrious and useful members of the
community. The cleanliness, mental training, and admirable behavior of
the one hundred and fifty pupils assembled on that occasion, impressed
me with a deep sense of gratitude toward the friends of the Children's
Aid Society, and to you personally, for your unsparing efforts in
devising and forwarding such a useful institution. I can only hope that
your Society may ever prosper and continue its charitable work in the
vast field of its operations with that truly Christian and benevolent
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