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RefNoMC/37/82
AltRefNo23082
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Ida M Kempe, 50 Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, W.2., to Sir David Prain, [Royal Society]
CreatorKempe; Ida 9fl 1923); wife of Alfred Bray Kempe FRS
Date27 July 1923
DescriptionEnquires whether it would interest Prain to see the enclosed account [enclosure not present] of expenditure of revenue of the Royal Society which she copied out from her husband, comparing the years before and after he was made Treasurer in 1899. Informs she has been through a great many letters, destroying personal ones, sent many to Sir Archibald Geikie, and that she has collected a suitcase full of papers which she intends to send to the Royal Society.
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8273Prain; Sir; David (1857 - 1944); botanist1857 - 1944
NA6638Kempe; Sir; Alfred Bray (1849 - 1922)1849 - 1922
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