Case 9498

22nd March, 1911.

C/F.C.
Dear Sir,
re A., aged 18.

I am again venturing to solicit the kind help of your Society, by granting me the necessary permission to approach some of your subscribers for "Letters" on behalf of the above named lad, who is a cripple with only one leg. Since 1903 he has been under our care, and last month was placed in a situation with a tailor in Devonshire. He is badly in need of a new cork leg, which I am informed will cost about £9; there are no relatives able to help, the lad himself is only earning a small amount as pocket money, and our funds are severely strained and quite unable to meet this heavy additional expenditure.

I shall, therefore, be very grateful if you can give me the required permission, and perhaps you will also let me know whether I shall be right in asking the lad's employer in Devonshire to obtain an estimate from a local instrument maker, in order to forward the same to you?

Thanking you in anticipation, and with many thanks for/

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