| Description | Rix writes at 2.40pm and explains that there have been dropped in their letterbox at the last delivery, the two enclosed packets. The average number of misdeliveries numbers around 14 or 15 a week. They usually dislike to hold back packets to show them, but as they are not matters of importance, he sends them as specimens of the way in which the letter-carriers operate in the courtyard on which the Royal Society is based.
Rix asks that it is brought to the attention of the relevant man, as such trouble has been on the increase. |