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THE NEW ENGLAND COMMITTEE 
For
FRENCH SOLDIERS BLINDED IN BATTLE

November 11, 1925.

Dear Mrs. Ladd:

We believe you are interested in men who now suffer one of the most tragic human afflictions - the inability to see.  We believe you can understand the poignant suffering of men- for whom is shut out forever the seeing of beautiful things, of the people they love, of the daily changing of a nature world from which we derive so much of joy.

We need your cooperation, your support, your interest.

Mrs. Winifred Holt Mather, Founder of the French Light House in France, has come to us for help in raising an Endowment Fund for the work in France for the men blinded in battle.

The Light House is there - a symbol of her devotion and of the generous impulse of thoughtful and sympathetic Americans whose sense of sight still is theirs.

In order that this Light House may go on with its educational work for the blinded - not only for Frenchmen but blind of all the allies - Boston is asked to contribute $100,000 toward an endowment.

We already have secured pledges for $30,000.

We ask you to serve on a committee of about fifty representative men and women who will concentrate their energies during Thanksgiving week in an effort to enlist the sympathetic support of the community in securing the Light House for France. 

May we count on you?

[[signed]] Sinclair Neeles [[/signed]] Chairman
[[signed]] Marguerite S. Hopkins [[/signed]] Vice-Chairman
[[signed]] Harry Hornblower [[/signed]] Treasurer

[[signed]] Romney Spring [[/signed]] Secretary