Letters by James Fergusson to the Hon. Secs. of the RIBA, 1867-1883

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Mainly on RIBA business; including a draft, forwarded to the RIBA by Fergusson in 1872, of a memorial by Walter Severn to Mr. Gladstone asking for the removal from office of Acton Smee Ayrton, First Commissioner of Works; three letters written in the autumn of 1879 concern arrangements for exporting glass to Schliemann [for his house in Athens]. [The above letters are accompanied by three letters to the RIBA by Fergusson's executors in 1886, concerning Fergusson's bequest to the Institute of any architectural books they would like from his library.].