[Charles Richard Weld, author.] Printed notice of the election of ‘the Council and Officers of the Royal Society’ and ensuing dinner, signed by Weld, and addressed by him to W. Vaughan. With the Society’s seal in red wax.

Weld and Vaughan both have entries in the Oxford DNB. The notice is printed in copperplate on the recto of the first leaf of a 4to bifolium. In fair condition, aged and lightly worn, with short closed tear to one edge, and slight damage to the second leaf from the cutting of the seal, which is present on the verso, with a good impression, in red wax, together with two postmarks and the address, in Weld’s hand, to ‘W. Vaughan Esq - [F.R.S.] / 70 Fenchurch Street / [Royal Society.]’ The notice, signed ‘C. R. Weld’, reads: ‘These are to give Notice that on the Thirtieth Day of November 184[4] being ST. ANDREW’S day, the Council and Officers of the Royal Society are to be Elected for the Year ensuing; at which Election, Your Presence is expected, at One [amended in manucript to ‘Four’] of the Clock in the afternoon at the Apartments of the Royal Society, in Somerset Place, Strand.’ A postscript, with manuscript emendations, gives details of the dinner to follow the election, ‘at the Crown & Anchor Tavern in the Strand’.