Record

Reference numberNLB/13
Alternative reference numberNLB/13
LevelFile
TitleNew Letter Book volume 13, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration
Date27 May 1896-7 December 1896
DescriptionNew Letter Book volume 13 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, Robert William Frederick Harrison.

Primary recipients: Colonial Office; John Evans; Michael Foster; Foreign Office; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; Harrison & Sons; Edwin Ray Lankester; Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]; Robarts Lubbock & Company; Albert Edward Sharpey-Schafer.

Contains alphabetical index of letter recipients referring to the page on which the letter is to be found, but not to the individual letter.
Extent500p comprising 842 letters
FormatCarbon
Manuscript
Physical descriptionVolume half-bound in brown leather, brown cloth binding.
DimensionsHeight 44(cm), width 29(cm).
Access statusOpen
Access conditionsNot currently available to view due to conservation
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA1686Evans; Sir; John (1823 - 1908)1823 - 1908
NA8220Foster; Sir; Michael (1836 - 1907); physiologist1836 - 1907
NA8225Glazebrook; Sir; Richard Tetley (1854 - 1935)1854 - 1935
NA8247Lankester; Sir; Edwin Ray (1847 - 1929); zoologist1847 - 1929
NA6090Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh; experimental and mathematical physicist1842 - 1919
NA8017Sharpey-Schafer; Sir; Edward Albert (1850 - 1935)1850 - 1935
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