Letter from D. McGowan to Thomas Allsop

Scope and Content

Manuscript letter written by McGowan with the aim of soliciting financial aid for a mutual friend Ernest Jones. Jones has fallen on hard times, and despite working with "unremitting diligence" on his newspaper [ The London News] he can no longer subsist. Jones' wife and two children are also very ill, and the possibility of eviction from their home could end with "fatal consequences".

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Stamped number: 2251