Reference code
RAA/SEC/2/108/1
Title
Frederic Hill, Bellevue, Hampstead, to Sir Charles Eastlake
Date
17 Jun 1861
Level
Item
Extent & medium
3pp.
Previous reference codes
M X 4, 1190
Content Description
The writer encloses an address, [the memorial to the President and Council of May 1861, advocating the lighting of the exhibition in the evening in order to open it to the working classes] and includes extracts from a letter from the Secretary of the Scottish Royal Academy, describing the cheap evening exhibitions that had been run there since 1845.