Dorchester, Dec. 16, 1886.

MY DEAR SIR, I am grateful for your very kind remembrance of me and the card which came so timely as an open sesame" to the opening services of the third century of King's Chapel, and the closing chapters of the first two. It was not unfitting that old Swansea should have a representation at the gathering, for Samuel Myles, the rector of thirty-nine years from 1689 to 1728, was the son of our John Myles, of Swansea history. Reference is made to Samuel Myles on page 80 of my "Historical Sketches of Barrington." While in the old Chapel I thought also of the grave of an ancestor in the old churchyard, Mary Chilton, of Plymouth Rock tradition.

May I bespeak your kind offices for a copy of the Proceedings of yesterday, when printed?

Most truly,

THOMAS W. BICKNELL.

Dorchester, Dec. 12, 1886.

GENTLEMEN, — I am very grateful for the invitation you have extended to me to be present on the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of King's Chapel. I should enjoy the honor and privilege exceedingly, as I have in my own veins some of the blood which your Rev. Pastor and myself have inherited from the Wilders; but above all to participate with you and the host that will be present on the occasion, in the renown, prosperity, and influence of the institution for the good of our city, and the welfare of mankind. So may it go on prospering and to prosper until we shall have done worshipping in chapels on earth, and finally be assembled in the King's Chapel above.

As ever yours,

MARSHALL P. WILDER.1 (1798-1886.)

1 The death of the venerable President of the New England Historic Genealogical Society took place on the day following our services, - December 16, 1886.