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APPENDIX. 



70, South Main Street, Bandon, 



July 5th, 1851. 



Sir, — We have pleasure to address you for the purpose of placing before you 



the annexed resolution adopted at the meeting of the Committee of the " Elax 



Association," this day, and io request you will favour us with your reply on the 



subject, to enable us to convene a meeting of the committee in furtherance of 



the object therein contemplated. TVe remain sir, 



Very respectfully, yours, 



,~ , . JOSEPH THOMAS WHEELER,! e , . 



(Signed.) WILLIAiI CONOR SULLIVAN^ Secretaries - 



J. Hill Dickson, Esq. 



At a meeting of the Bandon Flax Society's Committee, held 

 at the Devonshire Arms, on Saturday, July the 5th, 1851 — the, 

 Honourable Henry Boyle Bernard in the chair, it was proposed 

 by William Connor Sullivan, Esq., and seconded by John 

 O'Brien, Esq. :— 



" That J. O'Brien having read to this committee a letter he 

 had received from J. Hill Dickson, Esq., it appears essentially 

 necessary to the prosperity of the Bandon Elax Society, that a 

 further communication should be received from that gentle- 

 man ; and it is hereby unanimously agreed that the secretaries 

 write at once to Mr. Dickson, requesting that he will be so kind 

 as to name an early day to meet the Bandon Committee ; and 

 further, that he will be so good as to allow the committee to 

 defray any expense he may incur (if so obliging) as to agree to 

 their request. 



(Signed.) HENRY BOYLE BERNARD, 



Chairman. 



Colemain, Cork, 

 September 3rd, 1851. 

 Sir, — The Bandon Elax Society Committee, at their last meeting, passed 

 a resolution requesting you would be so good as to allow them to become 

 patrons of the work you intend to publish, on the question of Elax. 



I shall feel obliged by your adding to your list, the names of the Earl of 

 Bandon, Viscount Bernard, and my own, with a subscription of £1 from 

 each. We trust a book which is calculated to be of so much value, may be 

 soon in very extensive circulation. I have the honour to be, 



Your obedient servant, 

 (Signed.) HENRY BOYLE BERNARD. 



J. Hill Dickson, Esq. 



