Historical information

This is one in a series of letters written by various seafarers to Lillie Duncan. Lillie was a member of the Ladies' Harbour Lights Guild during the 1920s. She seems to have struck up a number of friendships with seafarers who used the facility. The Ladies' Harbour Lights Guild was responsible for much of the fundraising that constructed and maintained the organisation from its inception in 1902. They were also responsible for arranging dances and other social activities designed to make seafarers welcome in a strange environment.

Significance

The purpose of the Mission to Seafarers is, as it always was, to provide comfort and welfare services to visiting seafarers. This letter, and the series of which it is a part, underscores the importance of making relationships abroad for those who earned their living on the seas.

Physical description

Handwritten letter in four parts consisting of an envelope with three pages of handwritten text in black ink using only the face of each page.

Inscriptions & markings

Postmark in top right hand corner of envelope is indecipherable.
Postmark in bottom left hand corner of envelope:
PORT SAID/indecipherable/12JA.28.8-9A/indecipherable