| Description | Rix lists the documents which can be produced, namely, the memorandum by Pearson & Company offering to buy; the letter book, folio 94, April 1891 containing a letter to Pearson & Company telling them to call; a memorandum by Pearson & Company, 21 April 1891, promising to call the following day.
He further states that Mr Kennedy can prove the following: Pearson attended the Royal Society to see the paper; the van called for the paper the next week; Kennedy saw the name on the van; Pearson estimated the weight, and that there were six large sacks and one small sack; the sum that Pearson offered and the fact it was accepted; half the load was copies of 'The Times' newspaper and the rest was office waste. |