Copy, letter from Warren De la Rue, Portland Place, to Sir George Airy, Astronomer Royal, Royal Observatory Greenwich Will forward Airy's letter to [committee members] -- thinks there is strong feeling that [David] Gill should have the means of doing spectroscopic work at the Cape with an equatoreal refractor -- that the money could be raised for the instrument, with Government support for transport. p64. 14 April 1880