Six Autograph Letter Signed from 'W. B. Ferguson' (William Bates Ferguson) to Sir Henry Truman Wood, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts.

All in good condition on lightly-aged paper, and all but one (Letter Five) bearing the Society's stamp. Letters One, Two and Six docketed. Letter One (18 November): 12mo, 2 pp. Hoping that Wood, 'as an Ex President of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain', will 'help the Hurter and Driffield Memorial Fund [of which he is Honorary Treasurer] which is being got up [by the Royal Photographic Society] [...] to do honour to the memory of those famous workers in the Chemistry & Physics of Photography'. Letter Two (26 November): 4to, 2 pp. Asking for a 'short notice' of the Fund in the Society's journal: 'The difficulty is getting the Appeal before the people.' Letter Three (28 November): 12mo, 2 pp. Thanking him for agreeing to the notice and discussing plans. Letter Four (6 December): 4to, 1 p. A covering letter for the notice, which is discussed. Letter Five (14 December): 12mo, 2 pp. Discussing changes to the notice. 'Some people have the idea that Hurter was a German. This is not so, he was a Swiss (born at Schaffhausen)'. Letter Six (19 December): 12mo, 1 p. Regarding the purchase of 200 galley slips.