[The Secretary], to [unnamed], and [unknown] to [unnamed]

RA Collection: Archive

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.