Letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society, to [Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton] the Under Secretary of State, India Office A number of applications have been received for the Tata Professorships. The time limit was 31 March. The selection committee can proceed, but Hardy wishes to wait until [Walter Morley] Fletcher's return. He asks if it would be too late if they postponed. 7 April 1921