Acknowledging receipt of your favor of recent date.¹ The directors of this Company, 10 citizens of Clay County and 10 from our County, and some other prominent citizens will call on you Friday morning of this week, at 10 A. M. concerning the matter of securing your recommendation and endorsement of our application for fifty convicts in aid of construction under the special act of 1911.

We expect to arrive at the Langren Hotel Thursday evening, and you may address the writer there as to where it will suit your Excellency to receive us, and whether or not the hour suggested is convenient to yourself.