[Printed illustrated brochure.] The Camphill Village Trust. [With mimeographed typed appeal, on Trust letterhead.]

Author: 
[The Camphill Village Trust Ltd, 'A Working Community for the Handicapped'; Ursula Gleed, Hon. Sec.; The Botton Hall Estate, Danby, Whitby, North East Yorkshire]
Publication details: 
Brochure issued by the Council of The Camphill Village Trust Limited, London. No date [1950s]. Appeal on Trust letterhead. Dated July 1955.
£120.00
SKU: 11919

Brochure: 4pp., 4to. Bifolium, printed in green and brown on yellow paper. With four photographs of children. Fair, on lightly-worn paper, with vertical crease to second leaf. Requesting help for 'Houses Workshops Farms': 'Are they not human beings like us? | Do they not all have similar rights? | Do they not deserve to live a life filled with work, duty and pleasure?' Mimeographed typed appeal: 3pp., 4to. On two leaves of paper stapled together by a corner. Headed 'The Botton Hall Estate, Danby, Whitby, North East Yorkshire'. Begins: 'The Camphill Village Trust is acquiring, as the site for the Village, the Botton Hall Estate consisting of a main house, garden, three farm houses, and a number of cottages suitable for the small family units of the Village, together with some 220 acres of farmland. Outbuildings are also available for conversion into workshops.' Sections headed 'WE NEED MONEY', 'THE ECONOMIC BASIS OF THE VILLAGE', 'ADMISSION TO THE VILLAGE' and 'STAFF'. Scarce: no copy of either item at the British Library, or on COPAC.