Reference code
SA/36/34/2
Title
[The Secretary], to [unnamed], and [unknown] to [unnamed]
Date
02 Oct 1769
Level
Item
Extent & medium
1 piece, 1p.
Historical Background
Fourteen women were elected as honorary members at the general meeting of 5 September 1769.
Content Description
Draft letter informing the unnamed recipient of her election as an honorary member of the Society of Artists. The draft letter then continues in a different hand with a polite request, addressed this time to a man, for him to fulfil a previous promise to supply anecdotes relating to the writer's father.