Letters to the Editor
OUR ABERDARE FUND
[To the Editor of the SracTkron.] Sm, —I have received the first copy. of the Spectator which you promised you would send to our Library free at lead for a period. I am a member of the Aberdare Central Service Committee and also of the Cwmaman Area Service Committee. This is where most of the pits are sunk. We have seven large collieries in 11 miles of the Valley. As Librarian and Manager of the oldest miners' welfare institute in South Wales I was wondering if your readers could help us with some books for our Library and Reading Room. Owing to the distress I am the only full-time man on the staff, where we used to be five, and I have one assistant who only works every other week and two others who work three days per fortnight each. I trust you will not think I am begging, but a parcel of novels and juvenile fiction, old or new, would be much appreciated and would very much help the distressed miners here who flock to their Institute here because it is warm and comfortable ; they themselves built and maintain it by allowing of "every £1 of their earnings at the pits to be kept back for that purpose. I enclose our last balance sheet for your perusal, and would be pleased to furnish you with further information if you would require it.
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