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Papers appealing for funds for new Nurses' Home

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Includes printed Appeal, correspondence, related papers, including Printed Booklet: The Retreat, York, England (1925), issued for American Friends, appealing for funds for the Home A page from The Friend, The Quaker Weekly Journal, and a supplement to same issue appealing for funds for the new Nurses' Home, 30 April 1926 Living and Dead Monuments, a very small booklet referring to the evidence given about the Retreat by Constance Crosland and Dr Yellowlees to the Royal Commission in Lunacy and a reminder about, and picture of, the new Nurses Home now being added (ie an appeal for funds) Account book of contributors to Nurses Home Fund, recording individuals, events etc and sums of money raised. Indexed at front

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