Another letter suggests that at the annual meetings of the Volt teers there were several anxious seekers after truth who could at times be decidedly inconvenient. j Headquarters, 8. V. C i June, 6, 1866.
My dear Pearson,—Is your report ready for the meeting of the 10th' I hear it is likely to be somewhat unsatisfactory as the returned rifles are useless, hut you might bring the stock of cloth, buttons, vote, in hand forward. Don't say too much about your stationer: expenditure. We will try to keep it from the meeting.
This was written by the Hon. Secretary, whoze name, unfortunately, is undicipherable, and does not seem to be that of Mr. Alabaster as in the succeeding letter, which shows one of the Volunteers in trouble over a missing rifle. Tune 20, 1866. To C. Alabaster, Esq., Hon. Secretary, 8.¥.C.
Sir—I herewith beg to acknowledge receipt of a new rifle, my old one having been by some unaarountable accident lost or stolen. Of course, I am ready to pay the amount as soon as you will kindly inform me about it-
T am, ete, Ep. Rom, 12 Kinngse Road.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.