| Description | Contains pamphlets and correspondence relating to the relief of famine in various European countries. Includes:
/1 Pamphlet 'The Famine in Russia. Russia appeals to the world': Printed pamphlet of four pages published by Fight the Famine Council, September 1921. Includes quotations from Lloyd George, M. Avksentieff (Head of the anti-Bolshevik Parliament in Paris), Arthur Ransome, Dr Nansen, Lord Parmoor and Sir George Paish, urging the need for government action; on back page: 'What can our Government do now?', 'What YOU must do'. [Duplicate in DB/5]
/2 Letter from L. B. Golden, secretary of 'Lady Muriel Paget's mission to Czecho-Slovakia' to Dorothy Buxton: One page letter, thanking Buxton for the (SCF) allocation of £1000 for the relief of children in Czechoslovakia [1919-1921].
/3 Letter from the Armenian Red Cross and Refugee Fund to Miss Ellis, Fight the Famine Council: One page letter from Emily Robinson, Honorary secretary of the Armenian Red Cross and Refugee Fund, to Miss Ellis [Marian Ellis, President of the Women's International League] with an appeal for an allocation of funds from the collection at a public meeting to be held on 19 May, 14 May, 1919.
/4 Part of letter from the Serbian Relief Fund to Mrs Charles Roden Buxton: First page of letter from the Serbian Relief Fund to Mrs Buxton, acknowledging the receipt of her letter from Geneva and enclosing its latest appeal and report [not now present] relating to the work carried out in Serbia by the Fund which included the creation of hospitals, a Tubercular Commission and a Serbian Orphanage at Nish along with soup kitchens and dispensaries. 9 May 1919.
/5 Letter from the Vice-Chairman of the Serbian Relief Fund to Mrs C. Roden Buxton: One page letter from John Borie, Vice-Chairman of the Serbian Relief Fund, to Dorothy Buxton, reporting that the Fund's returning workers having seen no sign of famine in Serbia. 24 May 1919.
Also includes part of the original file cover. |