LADY VICTORIA HERBERT'S SCHEME FOR BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECIATOR."1
SIR,—The generosity of many subscribers has enabled this depot to send food and other necessaries to a large number of our prisoners abroad during the last three years. Money has been given for this purpose, not only by our people at home, but also by our countrymen in the Dominions, in Egypt, India, China, America, and elsewhere. Till recently the subscriptions so received were sufficient, but of late the number of prisoners whose necessities we endeavour to relieve has considerably increased, and our funds need replenishing in the same proportion. The system of "adop- tion," which has hitherto worked so successfully, is well known. At this moment I am very anxious to find fresh "adopters" willing to send one, two, or more packets, -up to the number of six each lunar month, to one or more prisoners. To each prisoner we send six packets every four weeks, and the contents are varied each time. That the parcels are appreciated by the recipients is shown by the following extract from a recent letter :— "You will be pleased to hear that I received a parcel last Tues- day which says from LADY VICTORIA HERBERT'S SCHEME, 5 STRAT- FORD PLACE,' and I can tell you I almost went crazy before I opened it. The contents were very nice indeed, and good food. I have not finished it up yet. I am trying to ration it out until some more arrive. Would you just forward this letter to Lady Victoria Herbert, and give her my heartiest thanks, for her parcel was indeed a gift from Heaven ?"
I shall be glad to receive the names of any persons who will assist us in our work, if only by guaranteeing one parcel a month; and I am ready, so far as I am able, to answer any inquiries that 5 Stratford Place, W.1.
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