Item KA/IC/R/4 - Letters, 1831, to the Secretary of King’s College London from correspondents with surnames or topics beginning with R

Manuscript letters to the Secretary of King’s College London including John Radford & Son forwarding samples of gowns worn by professors at Cambridge University; James Rennie (1787-1867), Professor of Natural History, supporting the admission of women to lectures at the College, citing examples of Colleges who admitted women to their lectures; Renshaw & Rush, Booksellers and publishers, offering to supply medical books to the College; Frederick Bolingbroke Ribbans, later appointed Landscape Drawing Master at King’s College School, regarding his terms for teaching drawing; Captain William Ronald donating specimens collected from the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, to the College; the Royal Society requesting permission to use the eastern terrace of Somerset House as a meteorological observatory.