Letter from [Henry Walter George] Cole, Director of the Exhibitions Division of the Department of Overseas Trade, to William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society Informs the Royal Society that £25,000 has been placed at the disposal of the Department of Overseas Trade, for representing certain other departments and committees at the British Empire Exhibition. Hopes that they will be present at a meeting at the Department of Overseas Trade next week [on 20 June], to suitably allocate the money. 15 June 1923