This article investigates how the new welfare bureaucracy impacted on the epistolary relationship between paupers and those who administered it locally and nationally. In particular, it traces the changes in those relationships between the earliest years of the new regime and its maturity in the 1870s. It explores the ways that paupers responded to the New Poor Law, and how they negotiated the structural and sentimental shifts that took place over that period. In particular, it looks in detail at the new uses to which the epistolary relationship was put by outdoor paupers, their advocates and workhouse inmates.

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为补救而写作：重新绘制新济贫法下的书信关系

本文调查了新的福利官僚机构如何影响贫民与地方和国家管理人员之间的书信关系。特别是，它追溯了新政权的最初几年与其在 1870 年代成熟之间的关系的变化。它探讨了贫民对新济贫法的反应方式，以及他们如何应对这一时期发生的结构性和情感上的转变。特别是，它详细研究了书信关系被户外贫民、他们的拥护者和济贫院囚犯所赋予的新用途。