Description | 'Dear Sir, In the absence of the Assistant Secretary [Robert William Frederick Harrison], I have to acknowledge your receipt for £100 on account of a Scientific Relief case. We duly received your cheque for one guinea for the Society's Dinner. The cheques were, however, only quite [recently?] passed through the Metropole. I am, yours faithfully, T E James Clerk RS [Royal Society] for Asst Sec RS [Assistant Secretary, Royal Society]'. |