5 MARCH 1937, Page 21

MEDICAL AID FOR SPAIN

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

Snt,—In order to raise funds for Spanish Medical Aid, the International Association of Writers for the Defence of Culture is organising a Book Exhibition and Auction at Foyle's Gallery, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, March loth, from 2.3o to to p.m.

Among many Authors who have already promised manu- scripts, first editions and autographed copies of their works are W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bowen, Walter de la Mare, E. M. Forster, Stephen Spender, J. B. S. Haldane, Margaret Ken- nedy, C. Day Lewis, Rose Macaulay, Charles Morgan, Hugh Walpole, H. G. Wells, Rebecca West, Humbert Wolfe.

We ask any of your readers who would like to contribute manuscripts or books to send them to the Hon. Secretary, 54 Fitzroy Road, London, N.W. I. We should like to make a special appeal to publishers for first editions.

There will also be the following second-hand stalls : Detec- tive Stories, Children's Books, Popular Science, &c. We should be grateful to receive lists from those who would be willing to contribute such things, but not the books until further notice.—Yours faithfully,

For the Committee, AMABEL WILLIAMS-ELLIS.

International Association of Writers for the Defence of Culture, Romney's House, Hollybush Hill, London, N.W. 3.