WCP5404

[1]

6. Brunswick Square

W.C.

Dec[emebr]. 4th 1913

My dear Mrs. Wallace,

It gives me very great pleasure to be the medium of communication between the Royal Society & yourself. At a meeting held yesterday the wish was unanimously expressed that you would allow the Committee which dealt with such matters to supplement, for at least the ensuring year, the national grant which comes to you through the Prime Minister. My committee being all fully cognizant of the great services ^rendered to the cause of Science as your late husband & being aware also of the heavy expenses which have been incurred [2] by you & your family owing to his decade have felt that it is the duty of the Royal Society to ask you to allow them to lighten to some extent this burden.

I am instructed therefore by my colleagues to ask you to be good enough to consider that the sum of £100 is at your disposal for the year 1914 & that it has been suggested that you might like to have quarterly instalments paid in advance to be distributed for the use of yourself & family in accordance with the terms of your late Husband's Will.

It is needless to say with what great pleasure I discharge [3] this duty. It only remains to add that when towards the end of this month you express a wish that the first instalment[sic] should be placed at your disposal I am at your service.

My wife joined in Kind regards to you & yours | Yours sincerely, | R. Meldola [signature]