Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr [Thomas Lauder] Brunton, [Fellow of the Royal Society] 'Dear Dr Brunton, Unluckily you did not [underlined] send your name, & the Committee who place the diners met last Thursday. All we can do is to give you the best places that are left. I am, faithfully yours, Herbert Rix Asst Sec RS [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society] I presume you wish all three to sit together, or I could give you better places - two & one'. 26 November 1888