Letter from Arthur W [William] Rücker, 19 Gledhow Gardens, to [Joseph] Larmor He thinks that [Michael] Foster will have informed Larmor that the first informal vote has confirmed that he would be elected Secretary [of the Royal Society] if he consented to serve. Rücker sincerely hopes he will take the post and no election would be more popular. He would be a central figure from whom 'all physicists looked for help'. Foster would go in two years, so the difficulty of having two Cambridge secretaries would be short-lived. He concludes with: 'Don't refuse'. 4 November 1901