Description | 'Sir, I am instructed to hand to your care the inclosed Letter of Condolence [concerning the death of Prince Henry of Battenberg] to Her Majesty the Queen from the President and Council of the Royal Society, and I am to beg that you will have the goodness to lay it before Her Majesty. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, Herbert Rix Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. |