[Margaret Lloyd George, wife of Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George.] Typed Letter with cyclostyled signature, asking Rev. A. H. Sayers of Monmouth to arrange for a collection in his church for the British and Foreign Sailors? Society.

Author: 
Margaret Lloyd George [nee Owen] (1866-1941), Welsh wife of the Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George [Rev. A. H. Sayers of Monmouth; British and Foreign Sailors? Society]
Publication details: 
7 December 1916. On letterhead of 11 Downing Street, London, S.W.
£50.00
SKU: 25003

See her entry, and those of her husband and their two daughters, in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded for postage. Although Sayers? name and address are given as recipient at the beginning, the letter is clearly a circular, and the signature is cylcostyled. It begins: ?Dear Sir, / I venture to appeal to your sympathetic interest in a cause which is very near my heart, and which, in a variety of ways, is voicing the Empire?s gratitude to our Sailors.? She requests ?generous support? for the British and Foreign Sailors? Society, which ?has been entrusted by the Authorities with definite responsibility for the immediate welfare of aged mothers, widows and orphans of the heroic men who have fallen while on Active Service?. Later she notes that ?at least ?50,000 will be necessary for the great task the Sailors? Society has set itself?. She has personal knowledge of ?its practical methods, its world-wide outlook, and its efficient administration?.