W. CHAMPLIN ROBINSON, PRESIDENT  WM. K. BARTLETT, VICE-PRESIDENT JOHN C. DAVES, SECRETARY

            THE TRUSTEES OF THE SHEPPARD AND ENOCH PRATT HOSPITAL
                   212-214 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, BALTIMORE, MD.
                                                                   (stamped) AUG 12, 1925
My dear Mr. Hill,

     Your letter of the 10th reached me today.  In your
former letter I had overlooked the heading: “Virginia
Continental Army Land;” as it turns out, it is up to us to
prove that Lieut. William Randolph was not a Continental
Officer, the data about the officers of the Virginia
Continental Line are most incomplete and meager from the
fact that the muster rolls of the Va. Line knocked about
the Treasury Building in Washington for some years, and
then were wantonly burned up to make room for something
else.

     It would be a good thing if you wrote to Richmond and
ask if they could tell you to what regiment Wm. Randolph
belonged to and what date he was made a Lieutenant, and
then let me know the result of your inquiry, then we shall
see what can be done about it.

     Our good member John W. Grant of Atlanta is often kept
away from our meeting by the “Metropolitan Opera Co”,
against which I am beginning to have quite a grudge; next
year we shall have our meeting early in April, which will
give both you and Grant an opportunity to attend.

                                Sincerely yours,
                                John C. Daves




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