SUMMARY:
M. Stocks, joint editor of The Woman's Leader and The Common Cause, requests a short (700–900 words) account of the recipient's work at the Zoological Society, noting the paper cannot pay contributors. A postscript recalls they were at school together and that the writer was then known as Mary Brunton.
CONTENT:
THE WOMAN'S LEADER
AND
THE COMMON CAUSE
-62, OXFORD STREET, W.1.
-Tel: Museum - 2700-
15 Deans Yard
Westminster
23/7/23
Editor:
Miss C. Macadam
Mrs J.L. Stocks
Dear Madam,
The directors of the above paper have
suggested that I should ask you if you
would be so very kind as to write us a short
account of your work at the Zoological Society for
the above paper. We are interested in all
aspects of women's work, especially in any
which appear to be opening out new avenues
of opportunity. Your recent appointment
naturally, has interested us very much. I send
a copy of a recent issue — articles, severally
run, as you will see, to 700-900 words. And
I should add that being a propaganda paper,
therefore financially insolvent, we are forced
to live on the charity of our contributors. That
however does not prevent us from bold and asking
any support for anything we want!
Yours faithfully,
M. Stocks (Joint Ed:)
P.S. As a matter of fact we were at school
together — if we were to meet face to face
I should address you as "Joan" & not as "Madam".
In those days I was Mary Brunton & I have an
idea that you were in one of the 4th forms, when I was in
one of the many fifths.