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A copy of the book was sent to "The Officer in Charge of Records" of each regiment, reading after the following form:

Officer in Charge of Records, 16th Queen's Lancers,

Dear Sir:

Canterbury, England.

New York, July 15, 1916.

With the approval of His Majesty's Government, received through the kind offices of His Excellency the British Ambassador to the United States, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society has the honor to transmit to you under another cover and to beg you to accept for your regimental library a copy of Mr. Reginald Pelham Bolton's recently published book entitled "Relics of the Revolution."

This book embodies the results of excavations on military camp-sites in the City of New York conducted by Mr. Bolton (a Trustee of this Society) and his colleagues during the past 15 years, in the course of which many evidences of British occupation during the years 1776-1783 have been brought to light. While these excavations have been going on, occasional correspondence with representatives of some of the regiments which have preserved a continuous organization since those early days has disclosed a great interest on their part and has led us to believe that their interest might be shared by their comrades of other regiments. Consequently, on February 28 last, our Board of Trustees adopted the following resolution:

"Resolved, That as a token of international friendship, the Society present a copy of Mr. Bolton's book entitled 'Relics of the Revolution' to each British regiment which was encamped on Manhattan Island during the War for Independence and which still maintains its existence, with an expression of the hope that the ties of amity between the two countries which have been unbroken for over a century may always remain so."

We have been gratified to notice, in the correspondence which has led up to the sending of this book, fresh proof, if it were needed, that our English cousins entertain, as we do, warm sentiments of pride in our common heritage of relationship and history; and if, perchance, this book recalls a period of temporary estrangement, we trust that your memories, like ours, will dwell rather on the longer periods before and after the events alluded to in the book, during which, as children of the same blood, we have developed the glorious traditions of liberty which mean so much to the world to-day and as leaders in which our two peoples

must always stand forth pre-eminent among the nations of the earth.

With renewed assurances of our cordial sentiments, I remain, in behalf of the Board of Trustees,

Yours very truly,

GEORGE FREDERICK KUNZ
President.

EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL

Secretary.

The acknowledgments of the receipt of the book contained many graceful expressions of international sentiment, of which the following are typical:

Lieut. Col. Cooke of the Royal Irish Regiment: "Far from recalling a period of temporary estrangement, such thought on your part and that of Mr. Bridgman will tend to foster pride in the glorious traditions of our common race."

Col. E. L. Robinson of the Lancashire Fusiliers: "The book is most interesting and we shall value it both for itself and for your kind thought in sending it to us."

Col. W. Graydon Carter, Officer in Charge of Records of District No. 9: "As Officer in Charge of the Records of the Norfolk, Bedfordshire and Essex Regiments I beg to thank you and your Board of Trustees on behalf of these three Regiments, not only for your kindness and generosity in presenting to each Regiment a copy of Mr. Reginald Pelham Bolton's book Relics of the Revolution,' but also more especially for the expressions of good will conveyed in their Resolution of the 26th of February last, which sentiments are heartily reciprocated. It has often been remarked by our Overseas Cousins from all parts of the World where the English race has settled down and even by native-born Britons who have lived much abroad- that the inhabitants of these islands are undemonstrative and inclined to hide their real feelings behind a veil of apparent indifference. 'The stone walls of England' was the expression used by an Australian who is fighting in one of the Bedford Battalions, but I can assure you that in our quiet way, we take the greatest interest in the welfare of the American Nation and feel a kind of family pride in its prosperity and destiny. The kind thought

which prompted your Society's generous gift and the sympathetic letter which you have addressed to me, coming as they do at a time when the three Regiments concerned are engaged in a war which has for its primary object the upholding of those traditions and principles of liberty which are the common heritage of the American and British peoples, will be valued by all ranks as a further proof of American goodwill and sympathy."

Captain G. Fitz Gerald, Assistant Record Officer of the same regiments, writes: "As I have had a great deal to do with these three regiments for many years, I have no hesitation in saying that I am quite sure Mr. Bridgman's generosity will be much appreciated by these regiments, as I have often noticed that the men look upon America as a sort of England beyond the seas where indeed many of them have relations. As these three regiments are composed of good English stock, their opinions may be taken as typical of those of the vast majority of their fellowcountrymen at any rate of those who really count in times of trouble and whose decision on vital questions of policy is decisive." Brevet Colonel A. W. H. Tripp of the King's Liverpool Regiment: "Believe me, the King's Regiment fully reciprocates your expressions of the friendship which exists and has existed for so long a period between the United States of America and the British Empire and thank you for the kindly thought and token your country's amity."

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Brevet Colonel W. H. Duffin of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment: "I need hardly add, on behalf of my Regiment, that the sentiments which prompted your Society to send such an interesting record of the period 1776-1783 will be heartily reciprocated by all ranks of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, at this great crisis in the History of Our Empire."

Colonel Harry Cooper, commanding District No. 3, including six regiments: "We British soldiers are very much indebted to you gentlemen in the United States for many details connected with service in North America during the 18th Century. Fenimore Cooper's novel (Lionel Lincoln) refers frequently to the 47th Regiment. 1st Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment; Parkman's numerous works on North America are full of interesting details relative to British Military Service at the time of

formation of our North American Colonies and their subsequent development. For my own part as an old officer of the 47th Foot who commenced his soldiering in Upper Canada and who has many good friends in the United States, I hope you will permit me to convey to the Trustees of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, and to Mr. Herbert Bridgman, my very best thanks for their handsome gift."

Col. Henry Streatfield of the First or Grenadier Guards: "I am most grateful to you and the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society for Mr. Bolton's admirable book, which you have been good enough to send me. It will be of the deepest interest to the Regiment under my command, and will form a most valuable addition to our Historical Records. In these days it is more than gratifying to feel the closeness of the ties which bind us, the First or Grenadier Guards, the composite detachment of which fought at Brandywine and Guildford Court, to the gallant troops who then opposed us. I feel sure that H. R. H. The Duke of Connaught, Colonel of the Regiment, will welcome this act of courtesy on your part."

FIELD TRIPS AROUND NEW YORK

In October, 1916, at the request of Mr. Charles D. Atkins, Director of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society arranged and conducted two field trips of the Department of Geography of that institution.

On October 7, the Secretary of this Society conducted a party of about 350 members of the Institute on an excursion to Bear Mountain Park. The pilgrims went on one of the Hudson River Day Line steamers. On the way up the river, they were gathered in the observation parlor of the steamboat and addressed by the Leader (the Secretary of this Society) and by Prof. John Mickelborough who explained the geological history of the Palisades and the lower Hudson and recounted some of the leading events in the human history of the valley. At luncheon in Bear Mountain Inn, the Leader made a brief address concerning the Palisades Interstate Park, the generous gifts of Mrs. E. II. Harriman and others, and the constructive work of the Palisades Interstate Park

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