Comments after the Chetham Society AGM, 1876

Crossley to Raines, March 28 1876

'The report of our Annual Meeting in the Courier bristled with blunders as usual. The Guardian was briefer but more cruel. How different were the reports in the time of friend Harland [John Harland (1806-68), Guardian reporter and Chetham Society editor], but now there are so many societies and such an inundation of Antiquarians and other intelligentsia that we have no longer the field to ourselves.'