Abstract
Mr. P. Lowry wrote a description of the work of a Prison Social Welfare Officer in this Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 29-40. When we asked him to contribute another article on his present work as Senior Probation Officer in Hereford—a relatively quiet rural area of the West Country, he sent us this "letter" to an imaginary friend whom he had not seen for some years, but who had—as we hope our readers have-a good background knowledge of the workings of the British Probation Service. He felt he could in this way, in colloquial language, give a more vivid description of his various activities than would be possible in a formal article giving theoretical ideas and statistical details.
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