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Ref NoMS 466/1/1/13/21/1
Finding NumberMS 466/170/28
TitleLetter to Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury concerning the 'British Women's Appeal for Women and Children in India and Pakistan'
LevelItem
Date28 November 1947
DescriptionThis letter, signed by Margaret Corbett-Ashby, Gladys Chatterjee, Agatha Harrison, Isable Hutton, Grace Lankester, Dorothea Layton and Mabel Hartog asks Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury to 'be one of the hundred representative British women' supporting the British Red Cross Society's appeal to provide relief in India and Pakistan. The letter refers to meetings between this group of women 'who have special links with women in India and Pakistan' and Countess Mountbatten of Burma who had suggested that 'any gesture of sympathy' by British women and 'any help they can send' would help the situation in India. Annotations on the letter reveal that Taylor Cadbury signed the enclosed statement supporting the British Red Cross Society's appeal.
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Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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