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“As i cannot write I put this down simply and freely” | 109www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 95–122 If32work could be procured from persons in the middling and lower class in life without any other pay than is sufficient to defray the expense of needles and thread: or if a little fund could be raised to purchase goods at a wholesale price, and after making clothes of them, sell them without 32 http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O70504/sampler-grace-sarah/ [20.04.2020] and Browne/ Wearden 1999, 107. Fig. 2: Sampler, Sarah Grace, 13.02.1827, England, embroidered wool with silk, height 31.7 cm, width 30.5 cm, V&A T.133-1961.32 The sampler contains different sets of alphabets, figures, a table for multiplication, various ranks with the appropriate attributes, and the following text: “VIRTUE / Virtue’s the chiefest beauty of the mind, / The noblest ornament of human-kind, / Virtue’s our safeguard and our guiding star, / That stirs up reason when our senses err.” (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London)