Copy letter from Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Hammack] Esq 'Sir, With respect to the application made by you through the Clerk of the Royal Society this morning during my absence for the use of a room in Burlington House for Committee meetings of the Social Science Association, I beg to inform you, as it may save you further trouble, that a similar application has been before made to the Council of the Royal Society on the part of the Association and that compliance herewith was declined'. 7 June 1862