Four Typed Letters Signed to G. K. Menzies, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts.

English politician (1877-1938), MInister of Agriculture and Fisheries, and Secretary of the Architecture Club. All four items one page, quarto, and in very good condition. Last item with one inch closed horizontal tear (not affecting text). Three items stamped and two bearing the Society's stamp. All four signed 'J. H. Elder-Duncan'. ITEM ONE: At a recent meeting of the Architecture Club committee Arthur J. Davis 'raised the question of our helping in some way to give wider publicity to your prizes for design'. Bone, the London editor of the Manchester Guardian, has already published a note on this matter. Asks for another 15 copies of 'the short statement you prepared and handed to Mr. Davis', for circulation 'to our Press members with a request that my Committee would be glad if they would further the objects by getting a notice into their papers'. ITEM TWO: Brief mention of decision of the Architecture Club Executive Committee to book the Society's Hall. 'I may mention that I heard from Captain Bennett this morning about the meeting in connection with a memoiral to Sir Lawrence Weaver, and that we shall be represented.' ITEM THREE: Cancels the meeting. 'We had intended to have had a little public protest about the Charing Cross Bridge Scheme, but the march of events has been too swift for us, and any further opposition is a matter for Parliament.' FOUR: Brief note thanking Menzies for forgoing the 'fee arranged for the hire of the Hall. I hope that we shall be able to reciprocate in some way for this consideration.'