Typed Letter Signed to Sir Henry Truman Wood, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts, together with a cancelled printed application form for membership of the Society.

Chairman of Unwin Brothers (born 1870). One page, quarto. Good, but discoloured and lightly creased, and with staple stain at head. Docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. He is sorry not to have answered sooner, but 'some very important business has engaged my attention during the last few days with the result that I put your letter into my private drawer without acknowledging it. | I thank you for the intimation it contains, but am afraid that at present I shall not be able to avail myself of the privileges you mention.' The application (two pages, quarto), cancelled in red pencil, reveals that Unwin has been proposed by Ernest W. Savory.