Rev. George F. Maguire, Harwich, Mass.
I am in receipt of your Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, for which please accept my sincere thanks. The information it contains will add greatly to the popular knowledge of what Irishmen have achieved, to enlarge the domain of their honest efforts in securing for themselves recognition as potent factors in the upbuilding of national thought and success.
I am rejoiced to accept the above mentioned Journal as an evidence of your sterling worth, in placing before the public names and facts which will strengthen the claim we make for our race, of having entered largely as a component of the many national privileges which we enjoy.