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Publications.
Our monthly (
Southern Historical Society Papers) has been regularly issued, and we are now completing volume X, which will be ready for binding early in December.
We have been able to place these volumes in a large number of the great Libraries at the
North, and find an increasing demand for them among army officers and others who take interest in historic matters.
We believe that we now have the Magazine on a safe basis — that our receipts from it each year will meet the expense of publication — and it is certain that we do not mean to go in debt again, but will, if need be, suspend the publication whenever it ceases to pay expenses.
And yet there are thousands of Confederates--many of them gallant and distinguished soldiers — all over the
South who praise our work, but fail to send us the $3 per annum necessary to sustain it. We beg our friends everywhere to help us increase our circulation in order that we may lessen the subscription price of our
Papers, while we improve their character and value.