Harriman, Tennessee,
                                        June 13, 1924.

Dear Dr. Adams:- I have received from Mr. John B. Clements a
copy of the Statutes of the Baronial Order of Runnemede, from
which I think I am eligible, rhrough my descent from Robert
De Vere, Earl of Oxford (one of the Sureties for the Magna Charta)
and I am writing you to know if you will undertake to qualify
me for membership?  Please understand in the beginning that I
wish to pay you for this work.

Through Henry Isham of Virginia (on whose service I have a
supplemental Colonial Wars paper) five generations back Thomas
Isham of Pitchley married Elene DeVere who is in direct descent
from Robert DeVere.  This much I have from “Of Sceptered Race”
by Annah Robinson Watson, pp. 246-7, but this book does not give
the line complete and I have no reference books here from which
it can be had.

I will be so very glad if you will do this work for me and will
Gladly send check to cover cost of the work on receipt of your
Bill.

I have a friend in Tennessee who I feel sure will invite me to
join as soon as he knows I am eligible, however I have not 
mentioned the matter to him and will not do so till I have my
papers ready, if they can be ade up

I will be glad to hear from you regarding this matter at your
convenience.

Cordially yours,
(signed) C.K. Hill

CKH/K


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