Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor George Gabriel Stokes, President of the Royal Society Asks permission, in the absence of the Treasurer, to consult Messrs Smith and Oakley regarding whether the Society should raise any objection in relation to the notice from the Metropolitan Board of Works of the pulling down or altering of a wall seperating 57 Basinghall Street from the next building, a house for which the Royal Society own the ground rent. 14 January 1888