With especial esteem, respect, and devotion, most gracious Baroness, Yours, Exner To this correspondence belong also the two following letters from the Marquis Pandolfi in Rome. I Rome, June 13, 1891 Dear Baroness, I have to inform you that the deputies of Germany have replied, accepting all our propositions and promising to visit us. Only they wish the Conference to be postponed till the beginning of November. So then all countries have heeded the appeal with the exception of the parliaments of Vienna and Budapest. These must be labored with, and you can do that better than I, with the assistance of a friend in the Reichsrat. I am sending you the copy of a letter which I have addressed to the Germans; it may serve you as a pattern of what you will want to write to your friends, of course with such changes as are requisite. Finally, I beg you to give me the names of the presiding officers of both houses in Vienna and Budapest. I am sending you under separate cover the constitution of our Committee, and later, as soon as it is printed, you will receive the full list of our Parliamentary Committee,—more than three hundred members. Best regards to your husband, etc. B. Pandolfi II (Without date) Dear Baroness: I have come to Stra for some days. As soon as I return to town you will get: The first circular, which we have sent to all our deputies and senators; The second circular, which we dispatched a few days ago. Baron Kübeck will have to do just as I did if he wants to make a success of it: 1. In order to form the first nucleus of deputies he must personally tackle the most active and best-known members, one at a time, and request their signatures to a declaration by which they concur in the formation of a Parliamentary Committee. 2. When this first nucleus is formed (thirty or forty are enough) hold a first meeting and appoint a provisory board. 3. Then the board will send out invitations to all the deputies, explaining the purposes of the organization, and, above all, the first purpose—to designate a number of such deputies as are willing to come to Rome. 4. After that, for all further steps, to communicate with me. 5. As soon as the committee is formed and the board appointed you must let me know their names, and thereupon a letter will be sent to the gentlemen in the name of the whole Italian Committee, asking them to come to Rome. They will receive the formal invitations and programmes later.