| Description | Kempe encloses a cheque for £3257, 13 shillings and six pence to be credited to the General Purposes Account, with instruction to be given to their brokers to invest £3200 in National War Loan Stock for the President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society. He also refers to a letter from Messrs Robarts Lubbock & Company of 19 January, asking that they continue to instruct the brokers to look out for the Italian Irrigation Cavour Canal Bonds which they have thus far been unable to purchase, and suggesting they wait a few weeks before deciding on an alternative. |