An 1885 letter of complaint written to the Freeman’s Journal by James Hamerton, apprentice solicitor, bemoaning the door-closing policy of ‘Chew.’ the over-officious porter in the Solicitors’ Building, Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland.
Compulsory lectures had been introduced for Irish apprentice solicitors not long before, a development not welcomed by all of them, since attendance involved travelling to Dublin.
Letters from apprentices complaining about aspects of the service provided regularly appeared in Irish newspapers during this period.
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