As we enter with this issue upon the second year of the publication of our Papers, we warmly congratulate the Society on the success of the past year and the prospects for the future.
Despite "hard times" our enterprise has met with a success which encourages us to hope that we shall be able to increase our circulation during the coming year, and advance all of the interests of the Society. But we beg our friends to remember that we need their continued sympathy and active help, in order that our expectations may be realized.
Renewals have been coming in with some degree of briskness; but many have yet failed to renew, and we beg that they will do so at once. We send this number to all old subscribers who have not notified us to discontinue their subscriptions, in the hope that they will find it convenient to renew. But we again call attention to our terms, which are strictly cash in advance.
Lists of Names and the postoffice address of those who might probably subscribe to our Papers would be very useful. Some of our friends have sent us such lists, and we beg that others will do so; but a still better list, of course would be lists of subscribers with money. A little effort on the part of our friends would swell our list and increase our power to be useful in the great work in which we are engaged.
Any Failures to receive our Papers by our subscribers will be promptly corrected, so far as we are able to do so, when reported to this office. The Secretary is accustomed to give his personal attention to the making up of our mail, and is satisfied that few failures have occurred through any fault of our office. But we beg that if subscribers fail to receive their numbers they will report to us promptly, that we may seek to rectify it, and not wait until the close of the year to make their complaints.
Back Numbers for 1876 we can furnish only in two bound volumes, which we mail at $2.00, $2.25 or $2.50 per volume, according to style of binding.
"A Confederate View of the Treatment of Prisoners" (being our numbers for March and April, 1876, neatly bound) we can still mail for $1.25. $1.50 or $1.75, according to binding. And we again suggest that our friends would do a valuable work by placing this little volume (as well as our other publications) on the shelves of every public library in the land.
