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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

And this important document he tossed on one side as lightly as if it were a begging letter or a tailor's advertisement.

From Pearl of Pearl Island by John Oxenham

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