Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Frederick Ponsonby.

English architect (1849-1930), designer of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Admiralty Arch and the new front of Buckingham Palace; President of the Royal Academy, 1919-24. The recipient (1867-1935) was a courtier, Private Secretary to Queen Victoria. One page, quarto. Good, though grubby and creased, and with one small grease stain in bottom right-hand corner (not affecting text). 'The arrangement of the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy will be completed and the Galleries ready for the Royal Private View on Thursday the 1st. of May and I write to ask if their majesties the King and Queen and Her Royal Highness Princess Mary will honor the Royal Academy with a visit to the Exhibition on that day'. Signed 'Aston Web | President'.