Copy letter from [Edward Neville da Costa] Andrade, to Dr [Egon] Orowan, F. R. S., 63 Cedar Road, Belmont, [Massachusetts], U. S. A Acknowledges with thanks, Orowan's previous letter, commenting that the whole business has been a great shock to him. Explains that for two and a half he years tried to get the Managers, who control the [Royal] Insitution, to see reason and an arrangement had just been proposed by them which seemed to head towards the possibility of improvements in running the Institution. Explains that then, Rankin, the Secretary, without consulting the Managers, arranged a General meeting of the Members at which he and Finch were to denounce him. 'The first I heard of this was when I received, as a Member, in an open envelope, a notice calling the meeting. Eventually at a packed meeting of Members, which was, by general consent, disgracefully conducted by the President, I failed to secure a vote of confidence and therefore felt obliged to resign'. Requests that Orowan treats the letter as confidential. 5 September 1952