It is better to show the date of the letter which we are
                           acknowledging. It is always trouble [some?] instead of [added?]
                           
                           to make every clue in official Correspondence plain.
                           
                        
                        
                           To-day the Sec of the Civil Service Commission had the
                           trouble of calling here—& I the trouble of seeing him—because in a
                           recent letter of ours about Williams of Bermuda, we quoted various
                           documents and did not tell the date of one of them. It will be worth
                           while to look at that letter: it is dated 24 Oct.