Letter from Leonard Courtney, Treasury Chambers, to [William Spottiswoode], President of the Royal Society Enclosing a memorial from the Governors of the Armagh Observatory as well as a copy letter from the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to the Irish government. The correspondence relates to the Observatory's request for government assistance. [Enclosures are present, have an extent of 8p over three papers, and are labelled MC/12/339a-339c within the volume.] 23 June 1883