welsh rev david (4 Ergebnisse)

40pp disbound sermon.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 35 pages F3 2.

Full-Leather. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Portrait frontispiece; Leather-Bound Hardback: full brown polished calf decorated in gilt and blind, all edges marbled; Bookplate of Sydney Ross, (1915-2013), Professor, Chemist, Bibliophile and President of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation; Calf worn, lacks lettering-piece, top board held by two 2 cords only, offseting from frontispiece to title-page, 3 previous owners' names, g+.

See her entry, and those of her husband and their two daughters, in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded for postage. Although Sayers' name and address are given as recipient at the beginning, the letter is clearly a circular, and the signature is cylcostyled. It begins: 'Dear Sir, / I venture to appeal to your sympathetic interest in a cause which is very near my heart, and which, in a variety of ways, is voicing the Empire's gratitude to our Sailors.' She requests 'generous support' for the British and Foreign Sailors' Society, which 'has been entrusted by the Authorities with definite responsibility for the immediate welfare of aged mothers, widows and orphans of the heroic men who have fallen while on Active Service'. Later she notes that 'at least £50,000 will be necessary for the great task the Sailors' Society has set itself'. She has personal knowledge of 'its practical methods, its world-wide outlook, and its efficient administration'.