| Description | Letters on legal and administrative matters ariisng from the bequest of the residuary estate of Lucy Alexandrina Foulerton. Correspondents include Sir David Prain; Francis Alexander Towle; Messrs Few & Company; Messrs Peacock & Goddard.
Includes discussion of the Royal Society's ability to make voluntary gifts from the Foulerton will and in other similar cases, and the matter's consideration by Counsel; the transfer or sale of investments from the Foulerton bequest; the audited accounts from Messrs Peacock & Goddard; the Counsel's opinion that the Society can only offer to consider any substantial evidence offered that a sum of money is owed to the clients of Messrs Le Brasseur and Oakley; Harry Foulterton's clarification of his request that the Society pay Death Duties on the sum granted to himself and his brother, 14 March 1920; a clearer statement of the claims of the claims of Messrs Le Brasseur and Oakley's clients. |