| Apologises for the delay in answering NS' enquiries. States that he has looked up the minutes [of the Charity Organisation Society] and can now give her the facts she desires. Confirms that HS' name does not appear in the list of the Committee printed with the report for the year ending September 1890, but explains this by saying that he believes that the Committee members are those appointed at the Annual Meeting for the succeeding year, and that HS probably did not wish to be re-appointed for 1891. Adds that he did attend a few times in the year 1890-1891, as he signed the minutes as Vice-Chairman on 3 November 1890. Sends her an earlier minute book [not included], which contains the history of the re-organisation of the Mendicity Society, and observes that HS' influence 'is very clearly marked from the time he appears on the Committee in 1871'. |