Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge to M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, 26 July 1918 Letters 1916-1923 John H. Billinge

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This letter is part of a three-sided correspondence between the Irish War Hospital Supply Depot in Dublin, the Belgian Funds Committee in Manchester, and the Belgian Red Cross in London. The Belgian Funds Committee, represented by John H. Billinge as Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, arranged for the Irish War Hospital Supply Depot to regularly ship medical items to the Belgian Red Cross in London, where they were used to treat wounded Belgian soldiers. Eleanor Dallas Pratt, Catholic wife of a respected Anglican surgeon based in Dublin, served as Hon. Secretary to the Irish War Hospital Supply Depot. The letters on behalf of the Belgian Red Cross were written by M. Albert Maeterlinck and C. E. R. Abbott. Maeterlinck was a Belgian national and returned home in January 1919. All files are kept at the Manchester Central Library. The bound volume also contains the lists all dispatched supplies and letters of thanks or supplication from soldiers and their families.

 Manchester Central Library GB127.M138/2435, Belgian Red Cross files, 1916-1919: File No. 5 "Belgian Red Cross Fund" (not paged) https://letters1916.ie/item/5977 English John H. Billinge 1918-07-26 Belgian Red Cross, Anglo-Belgian Committee, 48 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S. W. 1, England M. Albert Maeterlinck Belgian Funds Committee, 78 King Street, Manchester, England Male World War I (1914-1918) Medicine

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 B/S July 26th. 1916. Dear Mr. Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross I am today in receipt of your letter of the 22nd instI thank you. You will, I trust, forgive me commenting upon the fafact that your last receipt to us bears a penny stamp, as Ithink it possible that the course was followed by you or somemember of your staff who was not fully aware of the position.As a matter of fact in law there are very few exemptions frombut any receipt for a donation or subscription to an institutiotion as the Commissionars do not enfoce a penalty if it isgiven unstamped! This paragraph is extracted by me from the13th edition of Alpe's Law on stamp duties. this being therecognised work on such a point. I only quote this authority incase you or members of your Committee desire to refer to it. I trust the foregoing will be accepted in thespirit it is tendered. With the best of wishes for yourself and your workI am Yours sincerely P.S. Will you kindly let me know the amount of the donationreceived by you from Messrs. Cross's & Wirksworth, Bolton. Belgian Funds Committee, 78 King Street, Manchester, England Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge, Hon. Secretary of the Belgian Funds Committee, to M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, 3 June 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge to M. Albert Maeterlinck, 27 June 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge, Hon. Secretary of the Belgian Funds Committee, to M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, 24 July 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge to M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, 26 July 1918Letter from M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, to John H. Billinge, Hon. Secretary of the Belgian Funds Committee, 24 September 1918 Belgian Red Cross, Anglo-Belgian Committee, 48 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S. W. 1, England Letter from M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, to John H. Billinge, 16 May 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge, Hon. Secretary of the Belgian Funds Committee, to M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, 24 July 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge to M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, 26 July 1918Letter from Edward Benning, Belgian Red Cross, to John H. Billinge, Belgian Funds Committee, 9 August 1918 M. Albert Maeterlinck Letter from M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, to John H. Billinge, 16 May 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge, Hon. Secretary of the Belgian Funds Committee, to M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, 3 June 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge to M. Albert Maeterlinck, 27 June 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge, Hon. Secretary of the Belgian Funds Committee, to M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, 24 July 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge to M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, 26 July 1918Letter from M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, to John H. Billinge, Hon. Secretary of the Belgian Funds Committee, 24 September 1918 John H. Billinge Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge to Eleanor Dallas Pratt, 26 April 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge, Hon. Secretary of the Belgian Funds Committee, to M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, 3 June 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge to M. Albert Maeterlinck, 27 June 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge, Hon. Secretary of the Belgian Funds Committee, to M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, 24 July 1918Copy of a letter from John H. Billinge to M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, 26 July 1918Letter from M. Albert Maeterlinck, Belgian Red Cross, to John H. Billinge, Hon. Secretary of the Belgian Funds Committee, 24 September 1918