Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Rev J D Letts Informs that the decision to appoint Rev Letts as the Fairchild Lecturer for the current year was on condition that he read the lecture composed by the late Rev J. Ellis. As he wrote his own, and although regretful of the inconvenience caused, the Royal Society will not pay the lecture fee. 21 January 1856