| RefNo | NLB/2 |
| AltRefNo | NLB/2 |
| Level | File |
| Title | New Letter Book volume 2, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration |
| Date | 30 November 1887-9 February 1889 |
| Description | New Letter Book volume 2 containing carbon copies of outgoing Royal Society correspondence. Subjects are general administrative, including material on committees, refereeing and printing of papers, soirees and other annual routines.
Primary authors: Secretary, Michael Foster; Assistant Secretary, Herbert Rix.
Primary recipients: Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company; Drake & Gorham; John Evans; George Carey Foster; Michael Foster; Harrison & Sons; Robert Lendlmayer von Lendenfeld; Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt] Robarts, Lubbock & Company; George Gabriel Stokes.
Contains alphabetical index of letter recipients referring to the page on which the letter is to be found, but not to the individual letter. |
| Extent | 505p comprising 1050 letters |
| Format | Carbon |
| Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Volume half-bound in brown leather, brown cloth binding. Book boards detached from binding. |
| Dimensions | Height 44(cm), width 29(cm). |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1686 | Evans; Sir; John (1823 - 1908) | 1823 - 1908 |
| NA6347 | Foster; George Carey (1835 - 1919); chemist and physicist | 1835 - 1919 |
| NA8220 | Foster; Sir; Michael (1836 - 1907); physiologist | 1836 - 1907 |
| NA6090 | Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh; experimental and mathematical physicist | 1842 - 1919 |
| NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist | 1819 - 1903 |