| Description | 'In reply to your letter of the 3rd instant, it would be impossible without a resolution of Council to allow the Boyle air-pump or any other historical relics in the possession of the Society to go out on loan, and as the Council does not meet again until late in April I fear the granting of your request is impracticable. In any case I feel bound to say that I think it very improbably that the Council would agree to lend the air-pump to serve as a property in the Masque of Learning which is to be performed next week.' |