[Agnes Macdonell, English author, pioneering woman journalist and suffragist.] Autograph Letter Signed, asking Mrs Harrison Blair to cast her vote as subscriber to the Government Benevolent Institution in favour of a lady resident of Hampstead.

3pp, 12mo. On bifolium with mourning border. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. Rough pencil floorplan on verso of second leaf. Twenty-eight lines of neatly-written text. Signed ‘Agnes Macdonell.’ She has seen Mrs Blair’s name ‘in the list of subscribers to the Government Benevolent Institution’, and writes a line ‘to beg, if you have not already given your vote and kindly interest to any Candidate - to do this in favour of the poor lady whose card I enclose’ (not present). To ‘the claims set forth’ she adds ‘that she & her sisters have for years supported out of their small earnings an invalid, & quite incapable, brother’. The lady ‘has long been a resident in Hampstead & is highly respected by many hereabouts, who have seen her patient & cheerful struggle against poverty and under such heavy burdens’. She asks her to send ‘a message of kind remembrance to Mrs Frank Harrison - whose name is interwoven with my pleasantest memories of Beckenham’.