Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Manager, Whitehall Rooms, Hotel Metropole 'Dear Sir, Inclosed herewith I send you: one cheque @ £1-1-0 [crossed out and annotated in pencil '4-4'] one cheque @ 3-3-0 19 cheques @ 2-2-0 14 cheques @ 1-1-0 3 £5 notes £36-9-0 in coin. Making all £176-8-0. Please attach your receipt for this amount to the bill which I send herewith. A cheque for the balance due from the Society will be sent you in a day or two. Yours truly, Herbert Rix Asst. Sec. R.S. [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society] P.S. Your arrangements at the door were excellent this year, and we had no trouble at all in balancing our cash with the cards'. 6 December 1893