Members are earnestly requested to furnish the Secretary-General with biographical sketches. It is necessary to have these for our archives, and we hope that no member will allow his feeling of modesty to interfere with keeping the records of the Society complete. These sketches will not be published in the Journal if a member shall so direct. Read over your biographical sketches in the membership roll, and if they are not correct or should have additions, notify the Secretary-General.
Current items of interest relating to the doings of Americans of Irish extraction are solicited from every member by the Secretary-General. If a good article is met with in a newspaper or magazine, it will be thankfully received and filed in the archives if you will send it forward. It is by keeping abreast with the current history that we fulfil one of our greatest duties.
Donations of historical works, ancient or modern, or, in fact, books of any description, are solicited for the Society’s library. Copies or originals of old deeds, wills, bills of sale of slaves, curiosities in American or Confederate money, plate, postage stamps, old prints, pictures and the like are also solicited. When received, they will be carefully indexed and filed, with the name of the donor attached. Every member can readily find something of interest to send, and the aggregation will form a nucleus for a good library and possibly a museum.
Volumes I, II, IV, V and VI of the Journal of the Society are out of print. We have fifty copies of Volume III and ten copies of Volume VII left. The Executive Council have ordered fifteen hundred copies of Volume VIII, so that we may be sure every member will have a copy and the Society have some to spare.
These volumes out of print have become very rare, and some of them are held at high prices. If a sufficient demand appears from members who desire to have a complete set of the Society’s publications, the subject will be brought before the Executive Council for action, with the possibility that some of the volumes may be ordered reprinted.
REILLY OF F
(Captain H. J. Reilly, Battery F, Fifth Artillery, “The Fighting Fifth,” U. S. A., killed on the walls of Pekin, in the relief of the legations, during the Boxer uprising.)
By John Jerome Rooney.
I.
Know you the story, friends, know you the story?