[Concerts at the Front Lena Ashwell] Substantial Typed Letter Signed boldly Lena Ashwell to Bishop Welldon [Bishop of Manchester at this time] requesting his attendig a meeting at the Theatre Royal Manchester to interest people in the work

Two Pages, 4to, fold marks, sl. crumpled in part, but text good and clear. Text: She and her team have arranged a meeting at the Theatre Royal Manchester to interest people in the work of the Concerts at the Front. | For over a yer these Concert Parties, which go out through the Y.M.C.A., have been at work at the base scamps and hospitals in Grance and we are now extending our wrk, in response to urgent appeals from the Military Authorities. to Malaya and the East, and a Concert Party now goes right up to the firing line itself in France. | Will you help our Meeting by coming and saying a few words in support of the work? Your presence and help in this way would be invaluable, and you would also be able to conmvince many that these Conerts are of the greatest help to the sick and wounded men in the hospitals and to the men who are waiting their turn to go 'up the line'. | We hope that by telling peoiple of my experiences and those of other Artists with the Convert Paries in France, we may be able to raise sufficient funds to carry on the work for the duration of the War. [...] Note: [...] known as the first to organise large-scale entertainment for troops at the front, which she did during World War I. [Wikipedia]