[Printed with MS. additions] Indenture of Declaration of Trust [The Radium Institute, London]
Vellum Deed, 11pp., 4to, sewn with green ribbon, formal and elaborate deed, fold mark, some staining, but text clear and complete. Lord Iveagh and Sir Ernest Cassel to The Honourable Walter Edward Guinness Felix Cassel Esq. K.C., M.P., Sir Frederick Treves, and Others re. trust premises, patronage of the King, investments, funds, brief, staff, appointments, administration, other clauses (total 14). With: Schedules giviing Particulars of the Leasehold Hereditaments, and the said Building Agreement above referred to ... Part II. Particulars of the Property and Investments comprised in the Endowment Fund. | The Second Schedule above referred to:- The Objects of the Radium Institute . . . [13 clauses]. Objects include: To provide, endow furnish and fit out with all the necessary furniture radium compounds instruments and other equipments ...; Generally to provide and use radium ... for and as a prophylactic and curative agent ...; To provide for maintain and carry on researches ...; To manufacture prepare distribute buy sell or let out ...; To educate and train ...; etc etc. SIGNED by: Iveagh, Ernest Cassel, Walter E. Guinness, Felix Cassel, Frederick Treves, R.J. Strutt, Thomas Lauder Brunton, William Ramsay, Malcolm A. Morris, J.J. Thomson (with witnesses). A note in MS. on the otherwise blank back page states: A | This is the deed marked 'A' referred to in the affidavit of Arthur Leonard Horner sworn before me this 15th day of February 1915. | Before me | F.W. Staples Firth | A Commissioner for Oaths. Also discreet stamp of Supreme Court Enrolment. Presumably at some stage involved in a a legal case. Horner witnessed Lord Iveagh's signature. WITH: [Printed] The Regulations of the Radium Institute, 20 March 1914 | The Radium Institute || Regulations. || Lewis & Lewis, Ely Place, Holborn, E.C., [8]pp., 4to, unbound, sewn with green ribbon, fold mark, dusted at folds, mainly good. Summary of Contents: I. Name and Objects; II. The Committee; III. Officers; IV. Property; V. Alteration of Regulations. SIGNED (after the last) by Frederick Treves, Walter E. Guinness and Felix Cassel. 20 March 1914.