Copy letter from Alfred Bray Kempe to The Secretary, HM Treasury 'Sir, National Physical Laboratory. Adverting to your letter of February 20, 1909 (4033/09), I have been requested by the Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory to make application to you for the payment of Four Thousand Pounds (£4,000), being the first moiety of the Parliamentary Grant-inAid for the year 1909-10 for salaries and expenses. I should be glad if you would make the payment direct to the National Physical Laboratory account at the Bank of England, Western Branch, Burlington Gardens, W., at as early date as possible.' 6 April 1909