Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society 'Dear Prof. Roberts-Austen, It is high time we had a Soirée Committee to set things in train for the May Soirée, but Dr [Michael] Foster cannot manage any day before Tuesday, the 18th, and suggests 2.30 on that day. Will you kindly let me know as soon as possible whether that would suit you? and on hearing from you, as Vice-Chairman, fixing that or any later hour that suits you on that day, I will issue notices. I am, yours faithfully, Robt Harrison Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 8 February 1897