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  <dc:title>Correspondence relating to the Foulerton bequest</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letters on legal and administrative matters ariisng from the bequest of the residuary estate of Lucy Alexandrina Foulerton. Correspondents include Sir David Prain; Francis Alexander Towle; Messrs Few &amp; Company; Messrs Peacock &amp; Goddard.

Includes discussion of the Royal Society's ability to make voluntary gifts from the Foulerton will and in other similar cases, and the matter's consideration by Counsel; the transfer or sale of investments from the Foulerton bequest; the audited accounts from Messrs Peacock &amp; Goddard; the Counsel's opinion that the Society can only offer to consider any substantial evidence offered that a sum of money is owed to the clients of Messrs Le Brasseur and Oakley; Harry Foulterton's clarification of his request that the Society pay Death Duties on the sum granted to himself and his brother, 14 March 1920; a clearer statement of the claims of the claims of Messrs Le Brasseur and Oakley's clients.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>December 1920-May 1921</dc:date>
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