| RefNo | NLB/8 |
| AltRefNo | NLB/8 |
| Level | File |
| Title | New Letter Book volume 8, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration |
| Date | 28 June 1893-8 March 1894 |
| Description | New Letter Book volume 8 containing carbon copies of outgoing Royal Society correspondence. Subjects are general administrative, including material on committees, refereeing and printing of papers, soirees and other annual routines.
Primary authors: Assistant Secretary, Herbert Rix; Clerk, Theodore E James.
Primary recipients: Collings and Company; Cambridge Engraving Company; Clay & Sons; Dulau & Company; John Evans; Michael Foster; Harrison & Sons; Lord Kelvin [William Thomson]; A Keen; H Lindfield; Robarts Lubbock & Company; Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]; West Newman & Company; Edwin Wilson; H Woodward; Whitehall Rooms.
Contains alphabetical index of letter recipients referring to the page on which the letter is to be found, but not to the individual letter. |
| Extent | 517p comprising 1161 letters |
| Format | Carbon |
| Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Volume half-bound in brown leather, brown cloth binding. |
| Dimensions | Height 44(cm), width 29(cm). |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1686 | Evans; Sir; John (1823 - 1908) | 1823 - 1908 |
| NA8220 | Foster; Sir; Michael (1836 - 1907); physiologist | 1836 - 1907 |
| NA8289 | Thomson; Lord; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; mathematician and physicist | 1824 - 1907 |
| NA6090 | Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh; experimental and mathematical physicist | 1842 - 1919 |
| NA5964 | Woodward; Henry (1832 - 1921); geologist | 1832 - 1921 |