ALS, one page both sides, 4.5 x 7, black-bordered personal letterhead, February 25, 1896. Handwritten letter to English botanist and taxonomist Maxwell T. Masters, in part: "I have been asked by Monsieur Bertrand, President of the Council of the Institut Pasteur, to organize a British Committee to promote the monument about to be erected to Pasteur in Paris; and it seems right that we should lend them a helping hand. Professor Percy Frankland is to be secretary…I am asking all British members of the Academie Francaise, and trust I am not taking too great a liberty in asking you if you will kindly allow your name to be used." In fine condition.
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