Copy Letter from A B [Alfred Bray] Kempe, 10 Porchester Square, Hyde Park, to Sir William Huggins Kempe will send a cheque at once for [Joseph] Larmor's £4. At a meeting of the Antarctic Finance Committee this afternoon, Admiral [Pelham] Aldrich attended on behalf of the Admiralty. He thinks the result was satisfactory, and that the Admiralty will take over and pay for the stores which [Sir Clements] Markham ordered without their authority. They have passsed a resolution expressing their dissatisfaction with his conduct, stating that they will not be responsible in future for anything ordered without their express authority. 'Markham, it turns out, gave the order after he knew the Admiralty was going to undertake the whole business. He is a strange creature'. 13 July 1903