15 0 THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I have just
read your very interesting article on Cambridge House in the Spectator of November 4th, and I confess that I am not very much surprised to hear that the Mission is in want of funds, as, although it has been now going for ten years, I cannot remember ever having received any appeal for money, and my son, who is an undergraduate at the present moment, tells me that he has never even heard of Cambridge House. There ought to be no sort of difficulty in raising what you rightly call such a " trifle" as £5,000, if only the Committee set to work in the right way,—viz., by personal appeals to past and present Cambridge men. Lists of names can easily be obtained from the Peerage, County Families, Clergy List, Members of University Clubs, &c. A friend of mine obtained a very large list of annual subscribers to his own public-school Mission by a well-written appeal to the old boys. One word more. We old Cambridge men cannot be expected to take much interest in the work of the Mission if we never hear what is going on in Camberwell. A Quarterly Report, such as one receives, for instance, from the Church Army, or the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, or Miss Weston's Homes, would keep us well informed, and would pay handsome dividends in the shape of new subscriptions and donations. What Cambridge House wants is an organised begging and information department.— I am, Sir, &c., B.A. CANTAB.
[Cambridge House may or may not be wanting in the virtue of organised importunity; but it certainly publishes a Quarterly Report, which can be had on application to the Rev. W. J. Conybeare, at 131 Camberwell Road, S.E.- ED. Spectator.]
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