Grenfell (Wilfred)

Typed letter signed ('Wilfred Grenfell') to Miss Getrude Tuttle, thanking her for "offering your services in the North" and adding "I only regret to have to tell you that we have no funds available for paying the expenses of summer volunteers who come for only four (4) months. I would like you to believe, however, that we greatly appreciate your offer of cooperation and we should try to avail ourselves of it if it were not for the financial difficulty", one page, folding marks, some browning and foxing, especially along edges due to the letter being pasted onto a larger album page (this affected by browning and fraying to margins), original mailing envelope affixed to the lower left corner, 4to, 53 Monmouth Street, Brookline, 2 May 1922; together with a typed letter signed by Maud Ballington Booth, addressed to the same recipient and reading "I cannot begin to tell you how much the Hope Hall League has meant to me. I am so anxious to devote all the time possible to the work within prison walls, that I am very glad for each friend who subscribes yearly to this League so that a little of the financial burden may be lifted from my shoulders. I am so grateful to you, dear friend, for the good help you have formerly given and I hope that you will be able to help us again this year. The work is doing splendidly and we have every cause to feel that it is well worth while", one page, folding marks, some splitting and chipping along margins, some browning and unevenness of toning, 4to, Volunteer Prison League headed paper, 34 West 28 Street, New York, 1 December 1917.(2)