| Reference number | MC/9/355 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Lord Dufferin, Exhibition Palace, Dublin, to the Secretary of the Royal Society |
| Date | March 1872 |
| Description | Asking the Society to contribute to the project of a national portrait gallery by loaning portraits of deceased people of distinction who are either Irish by birth or are connected with the Irish public transactions. Dufferin specifically asks for Sir Robert Southwell and Sir Hans Sloane's portraits.
[For requested portraits, see related records.] |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Access status | Open |
| Related records in the catalogue | P/0122 |
| P/0118 |