Priory Lodge No. 1000 dated May 1900

The following is a trascript of a letter received with the Lodge Return and reads: -

"Acre House
Prittlewell Street
Southend-on-Sea
May 1900.
Dear Sir,

Enclosed with this is "Priory Lodge" Returns and I must tender apology for not sending same earlier, by some means I got the date confused with another return due at end of April, I note your remark in letter off 17th inst. that this should have reached prior to Apl Quater Session.

I am Sir
Yours Sincly
C Floyd

H.Gibson Esq.
Chelmsford
[Clerk to the Justice of the Peace]