begging-letter

He throws off the infection of begging-letter writing, like the contagion of disease.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Give money to-day in recognition of a begging-letter, — no matter how unlike a common begging-letter, — and for the next fortnight you will have a rush of such communications.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

As I sat on the floor hammering, my door opened, and my neighbour, the begging-letter writer came in.

The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

They rented no land, and they followed no trade, and they took no alms by land or post; for the begging-letter system was not yet invented.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

The men are thieves, begging-letter writers, pickpockets, bookmakers 'touts, totters (rag and bone men), and trouncers (men paid by costermongers to shout their wares), and bullies.

The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" Minnie Lindsay Rowell Carpenter

The latter struggled on through thick and thin, and never in all his privations thought of sending a begging-letter to his old class-mate.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

A begging-letter writer, a friend of Bozo’s, who wrote pathetic appeals for aid to pay for his wife’s funeral, and, when a letter had taken effect, blew himself out with huge solitary gorges of bread and margarine.

Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

As I sat on the floor hammering, my door opened, and my neighbour, the begging-letter writer came in.

The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories Herbert George 1911

It was the moment (1781) when the final struggle with Lord North was at its fiercest, and Burke might have been absolved if, in the stress of conflict, he had neglected a begging-letter.

Burke Morley, John 1907

We all, in fact, admit that it would be entirely improper to replace the income-tax form by the begging-letter.

Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government 1907