Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society 'Dear Sir, I regret to say that your application for fifty more copies of your Aberration paper came too late, as the type was already broken up. The plates are still on the stone, but these, I imagine, will be of little use without the text. Yours truly, H Rix Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. 24 November 1893