Letter to George Quayle Cannon, 16 November 1888
Dear Brother Addy.
Brother R. handed me your note this
morning. In reply will say I supposed you under
stood perfectly well the situation of all papers and
documents in the Historian's Office how they were disposed
of there was no time to list or itemize them or anything in
that office when they were removed. It would have taken three
clerks four days to have listed what was removed from that
office, and we expected every hour for the officers to seize
and the work was not done any too soon. Now the facts are
there was 100 pidgeon holes full of papers and they were put
by the bushel into larger boxes with other things without any
listing whatever. There are three tons of those boxes and you know
the house where they were deposited and I have tried to get them
removed before you went away and I have never been able to
do it until within a few days. Brother Jacques is now at work
to try and find the papers you want, but it is like looking for a
needle in a hay mow, but he will do as fast as he can. If there
had been time to have numbered those boxes and named each
item it would have been an easy matter to have got at them, but
there was no time given for it. Brother Jacques has just come in, He
is searching the boxes and has found eight of the papers and given
them to Bro. R. this morning. I do not feel to cast any blame upon
any one but ourselves in this matter. You know that I have been
