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begging letter

British  

noun

  1. a letter asking for money sent esp by a stranger to someone known to be rich

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When Heyhoe Flint was searching for sponsorship for an unofficial tour of Jamaica, she sent a "begging letter" to Wolverhampton-born millionaire Charles Hayward.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2023

“It was all sort of gradual. It went from one begging letter a month to 400.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2017

As Scott Sandage writes in Born Losers, the Gilded Age birthed a new genre of writing: the begging letter.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2014

"Experience The FA Cup with Budweiser at Wembley," the begging letter began.

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2013

"No doubt a begging letter from some Leicester Square fellow," he thought.

From Sunrise by Black, William

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