Eight Autograph Letters Signed to G. K. Menzies, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts.

Professor of Mine Engineering at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington (died 1940). Collection is very good, though somewhat grubby. Four items, 4to; three, 12mo; one, 16mo. All items docketed, and several carrying the Society's stamp. All signed 'Wm. Frecheville'. Mainly concerned with the delivery of a course of lectures 'on the mineral resources of the Empire' and a lecture on the 'Development of mineral resources'. Letter of 13 February 1918 (2 pages, quarto): 'With regard to joining the Society of Arts, my time is so occupied I can hardly read the various paper &c. connected with my own special branch - However, your Society is doing very good work, and if you will allow me I should like to think it over.'