Registered Office: 1 Balloon St, Manchester, 4.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: "WHOLESALE" E.D.O. London
Telephone Royal 7221
Extension No. 254
Please Address Your Reply
Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited.
BRANCH ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE.
99. Leman Street.
London. E.1.
Our Ref: A/AEN/HMM.
Your reference: HVT/FC/166.
19th January 1938
Dear Mr. Tewson,
Clothing for Basque Children.
Referring to your letter of the 17th instant, enclosing accounts, as under:
13th Novr. 1937 No.39/8928 3½ doz. Knickers £1.11.10.
1st Dec. 1937 No. 39/94814 19 prs. Shoes £3. 4. 1.
7th " " 39/9965 9 prs. Boots 1. 6. 7.
8th " " 39/10045 4/12 doz. Knickers 2. 5.
13th " " " 39/10342 3.11/12 dz. Gloves 1.14. 11.
and suggesting that they might be met out of the grant by the C.W.S. given for the assistance of the Basque Children, we are informed by our Head Office at Manchester that the invoices concerned have been discharged with other items by the Basque Children's Committee, of 53 Marsham Street, London, S.W.1., by cheque £36. 1. 7d on the 14th instant. In the circumstance we are returning the invoices herewith.
For your information, and at your request, we beg to enclose particulars of goods supplied to the Basque Children's Camp out of the C.W.S. Grant, which amount to £161. 14. 8d, so that there is still roughly £88 to spend.
Yours faithfully,
pro Society,
A. E. Newman
Mr. H.V. Tewson,
Trades Union Congress,
Transport House,
Smith Square,
London, S.W.1.
Enclosures.