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begging letter

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

While Christian Jones responded by urging the restaurant to "bar the scruffs" for the "begging letter to a small business so millionaires can have a free dinner".

From BBC

Each time she arrived in a new city, she would have to write a “begging letter” to the nearest observatory asking for work.

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

In the past, this might have been a begging letter from an ex returned to them unopened.

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