Description | 'Dear Mr Wheeler, I have safely received the historical memoranda about the Royal Society found amongst the papers of the late Mr Walter White, and which you have been good enough to forward. They have been placed with those which you sent before, and will be very valuable when the history of the Society for the past century comes to be written. Yours truly, H Rix Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. |