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To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
$ ?& The Public , and especially our Advertizing Friends , are cautioned against the man named GREEN . We are requested to state that Dr . Crucefix has altogether retired from London . His address is Grove , Gravesend , Kent ; where all communications should be addressed that are intended for his personal observation—indeed , letters for the Editor , under cover to him , will more immediately reach their destination .
It is most earnestly entreated that , wherever possible , all communications may be written only on one side of the paper ; also that all German and other foreign words may be most legibly written . AVe are requested by Dr . Crucefix , who is preparing for the Press an account of Popular Events in English Freemasonry , to be favoured by any Masonic Papers ; more especially as relating to York and Athol
Masonry—the trials of Preston , Whitney , Bonner , and others . His own escapade is complete . Furthermore—Dr . Crucefix desires us respectfully to intimate , that as in a great many instances he has not kept copies of his own correspondence with numerous esteemed brethren , he will consider it a lasting obligation if brethren , possessing any letters written by him on important subjects , will grant him the loan of such letters , which will serve to refresh his memory ; such letters of course will be returned , if requested .
ImiAGATOit . —We believe that Dr . Oliver would prefer a subscription to " The Symbol of Glory , " and would feel personally complimented by any brother writing to him at Scopwick , near Lincoln , on the subject . Indagator is further informed that the copies will be delivered free of expense at the prices named in the prospectus . We believe also that Dr . Oliver will take a final leave ofhis friends and of Masonry in this Work .
WHAT is THE P . S . G . D . ABOUT?—Why he "havers" as usual , to be sure . Dearee me , what does that mean ? "Haver , is the Scotch for talking nonsense like a silly person . "— Vide Tait ' s Magazine for May last , p . 284 , P . Q . complains that we have not noticed an elegant Volume of Songs and Ballads by Bro . J . E . Carpenter ; this is true , but then we have not had the opportunity of doing so .
Bro . SCOTT . —The communication is most welcome . Bro . K . P . —The outline of the address by Bw Serjeant Wilkin , on his initiation at the Moira Lodge on the 24 th April , is received ; but we hope to be favoured by a more ample account of what is currently reported to have been a most brilliant address , A WHISTLER . — " If we say we have not sinned we make him a liar . " The story , as we heard it , runs thus : —Many years since , at an academy for young gentlemen near Biackheath , one Master Thickhead whistled in school-time . Mr . F . insisted on the culprit stepping out-Thickhead did so ; it was not however with the intention of owning his fault , but with brazen effrontery to denounce Master Kindheart as the offender . Now Thickhead was a big , burly " ooy . and Kindheart feafed him—the inference was clear ; poor Kindheart ' s protestation of
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To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
$ ?& The Public , and especially our Advertizing Friends , are cautioned against the man named GREEN . We are requested to state that Dr . Crucefix has altogether retired from London . His address is Grove , Gravesend , Kent ; where all communications should be addressed that are intended for his personal observation—indeed , letters for the Editor , under cover to him , will more immediately reach their destination .
It is most earnestly entreated that , wherever possible , all communications may be written only on one side of the paper ; also that all German and other foreign words may be most legibly written . AVe are requested by Dr . Crucefix , who is preparing for the Press an account of Popular Events in English Freemasonry , to be favoured by any Masonic Papers ; more especially as relating to York and Athol
Masonry—the trials of Preston , Whitney , Bonner , and others . His own escapade is complete . Furthermore—Dr . Crucefix desires us respectfully to intimate , that as in a great many instances he has not kept copies of his own correspondence with numerous esteemed brethren , he will consider it a lasting obligation if brethren , possessing any letters written by him on important subjects , will grant him the loan of such letters , which will serve to refresh his memory ; such letters of course will be returned , if requested .
ImiAGATOit . —We believe that Dr . Oliver would prefer a subscription to " The Symbol of Glory , " and would feel personally complimented by any brother writing to him at Scopwick , near Lincoln , on the subject . Indagator is further informed that the copies will be delivered free of expense at the prices named in the prospectus . We believe also that Dr . Oliver will take a final leave ofhis friends and of Masonry in this Work .
WHAT is THE P . S . G . D . ABOUT?—Why he "havers" as usual , to be sure . Dearee me , what does that mean ? "Haver , is the Scotch for talking nonsense like a silly person . "— Vide Tait ' s Magazine for May last , p . 284 , P . Q . complains that we have not noticed an elegant Volume of Songs and Ballads by Bro . J . E . Carpenter ; this is true , but then we have not had the opportunity of doing so .
Bro . SCOTT . —The communication is most welcome . Bro . K . P . —The outline of the address by Bw Serjeant Wilkin , on his initiation at the Moira Lodge on the 24 th April , is received ; but we hope to be favoured by a more ample account of what is currently reported to have been a most brilliant address , A WHISTLER . — " If we say we have not sinned we make him a liar . " The story , as we heard it , runs thus : —Many years since , at an academy for young gentlemen near Biackheath , one Master Thickhead whistled in school-time . Mr . F . insisted on the culprit stepping out-Thickhead did so ; it was not however with the intention of owning his fault , but with brazen effrontery to denounce Master Kindheart as the offender . Now Thickhead was a big , burly " ooy . and Kindheart feafed him—the inference was clear ; poor Kindheart ' s protestation of