AN APPEAL - [To the Editor of TI1E SPECTATOR.] •
SIR,—At this season the Committee of this Corporation, which has for three-quarters of a century been steadily engaged in relieving poor clergy, their widows and orphan daughters, requires to make plans in advance for holiday grants ; and you, Sir, have been so kind as to allow us to plead for help in this direction in your columns. Our Holiday Fund is a most valuable branch of our work. None of our money is better spent. A cheque for £25 means con- valescence after an illness or operation ; one for even a smaller sum may, and often does, ward off a breakdown from chronic overwork and anxiety. Already during this year we have helped in forty-nine instances of convalescence alone, and an even larger number of ordinary holiday grants have been made.
The Bishop of Lincoln, at our last annual meeting,, said of our work : " Of the swiftness of the help they give .I, cannot say too much." The chief value of these holiday grants depends from the very nature of the case on our being able to plan ahead, and in order that we may do so, I once more ask friends, old and, I would hope, new, to send subscriptions not to myself but to our Secretary, Captain T. G. Carter, R.N., 88 Tavistock Place, London, W.C. I. Apart from cases of actual illness a grant often makes the difference between a breath of sea air for vicarage children and no summer holiday at all.—I am, Sir, &c., GORDON PONSONBY, Chairman of the Committee. The Poor Clergy Relief Corporation,
88 Tavistock Place, Tavistock Square, MC. 1.
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