Record

Document Reference	Ga 2 E 1142
Title	Letter from Henry Oliver and James MacMillin, Secretaries of Retford Temperance Society to George Edmund Milnes Monckton-Arundell, 7th Viscount Galway; undated [c.1856-1931]
Date	c.1856-1931
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Requests a donation of money or annual subscription from Galway towards the work done by the society raising the poor of Retford "from a state of degredation which was brought on by drinking to a respectable position in society". Date: The letter is undated. The date span privided, 1856-1931, is based on the date of the rest of 7th Viscount Galway's correspondence.
Term	charities
	charity, subscriptions, requests for
	medical conditions, alcoholism
	food and drink, alcohol
	social movements, temperance
	clubs and societies, Retford Temperance Society