Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to W B Croft, Winchester College 'Dear Sir, There can, I am sure, be no objection to your attending the Press Views on the occassion of our conversazione. I will lay before our Soirée sub-commee [committee] at their next meeting the list of portraits which you enclose, and if they are accepted as an exhibit you will, of course, be entitled to a ticket for the Soirée. Yours truly, Herbert Rix Asst. Sec. RS [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 6 April 1891