432 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
On Friday last I sent proof sheets to Lord Stanley, and received from him a kind 
note. Mrs. Howe has the correspondence and will show it to yourself, Power?8 
and Jerry? It should go no further at present, and must be regarded as strictly 
confidential. 
The paper had better be republished at length in our Halifax and country papers. 
I will send some copies direct to Newfoundland and P.E.I. and have written to the 
Editors of the New York Albion®® who I hope will give it at large. 
I shall now send Copies to the Members of the Cabinet and write enclosing it 
to such leading Members of both Houses as I happen to know. 
Remember us to all friends and believe me, 
Sincerely Yours, 
JOSEPH HOWE. 
We have been driven out of our old lodgings by repairs going on in the rear 
Byron, when in town, lived in this house and I suppose wrote here his English 
Bards and Scotch Reviewers.*! We breakfasted this morning in his study. 
London, 
25 Saville Row, 
Sept. 28, 1866. 
Wm. J. Stairs, Esq. 
My dear Stairs, 
By the last mail I sent you copies of our Pamphlet and forwarded copies to many 
of our friends at home and in the other Provinces, and wrote a few lines of explanation 
or recognition to forty or fifty people who might be gratified to hear from me. 
Within the fortnight we have sent Pamphlets to all the Ministers and leading 
Members of both Houses of Parliament—to the principal Newspapers and periodicals 
in England, Ireland and Scotland, accompanied by 48 letters to persons who we know 
personally or with whom we could fairly take the liberty. We sent a circular to all 
the Scotch Editors reminding that old Scotland should stand by her namesake 
and see that she got fair play. Many of the answers received from persons written 
to are very satisfactory and prove that our labor will not be lost. We have nearly 
exhausted an edition of 500 in these operations, but 500 more are being struck off 
which we will send to Members of both houses, Clubs, Chambers of Commerce, 
and Reading Rooms. We shall ruin you all I fear with printing, and postage, but 
there was no other way to reach the governing classes here and to change the stream 
of public opinion. 

28 Patrick Power, (1815-1881) one of the Vice-Presidents of the League. Represented Halifax in 
the first Parliament of Canada, 1867. Re-elected 1874. 
29 Jeremiah Northup, one of the leaders in the Anti-Confederation Movement. Born 1815. 
He was Commissioner for issuing Provincial Notes in 1866, and represented Halifax in the Assembly 
1867. Appointed to the Senate 1870. Died 1879. 
30 A weekly newspaper published in New York, chiefly for British readers in the United States. 
Peter Brown, father of George Brown, and founder of the Toronto Banner, was a contributor to the 
Albion in 1838. Howe was offered the editorial management of the paper in 1866. See Longley, 
Joseph Howe, 182-84. 
81 Published in 1808. 
