Description | Letter received by the Royal Society as a result of a statement, titled 'A Curious Fact' (see AP/10 for description). Reely writes on behalf of the Postmaster General in response to a letter from the Society requesting assistance with the 'unnecessary communications' that the Society had been receiving as a result of the publication of 'A Curious Fact'. Reely states that the Post Office will remit any charges occurring from the receipt of these letters by the Society. Includes a list of expenses paid in postage for letters received from Perth [Perthshire, Scotland], the United States, Dublin [Ireland], Templemore [County Tipperary, Ireland], Taunton [Somerset, England], Barnstaple [Devon, England], Liverpool [Merseyside, England], and Spalding [Lincolnshire, England].
Subject: Physics
Written by Reely at the General Post Office and addressed to Hudson at Somerset House [London]. Postmarked 7 October 1833. |