. A lord mayor's diary, 1906-7. ngchildren. I have now the pleasure to enclose twocheques for 100 guineas each (one from the Kingand one from the Queen), as donations from theirMajesties towards the Fund being raised for thismost worthy object. Their Majesties authorise me to say they cannotconceive any method better calculated to assist inrescuing from crippledom a large portion of thesepoor little sufferers than the establishment on a firmand sound basis of such an institution as is contem-plated in the scheme which you have laid before theBritish public. I remain, my dear Lord Mayor, Very t

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. A lord mayor's diary, 1906-7. ngchildren. I have now the pleasure to enclose twocheques for 100 guineas each (one from the Kingand one from the Queen), as donations from theirMajesties towards the Fund being raised for thismost worthy object. Their Majesties authorise me to say they cannotconceive any method better calculated to assist inrescuing from crippledom a large portion of thesepoor little sufferers than the establishment on a firmand sound basis of such an institution as is contem-plated in the scheme which you have laid before theBritish public. I remain, my dear Lord Mayor, Very truly yours, D. M. Probyn. I cannot resist adding this testimony from a greatauthority. Sir George Newman, in writing to me inDecember, 1919, says: I have been for many yearsa warm admirer of the splendid work which has beendone at Alton. It has not only proved invaluableas a body-repairing and life-saving institution of LADDER OF HEALTH. 1^ --ifr— ir 1 ^ 1 11 A I ^yji^ ^mmt^ 1 1 TlBpV*l 1 ^^^_J I _j ^ ^^K t J W^ jIt :. i^ . I