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Robert Washington Dana British naval architect Seven Typed Letters Signed all 'R. W. Dana' and one of the signatures cyclostyled to Sir Henry Trueman Wood Secretary Royal Society of Arts.

Best.-Nr. 6588 — 1911 3 letters and 1913 4 letters; all on letterhead of the Institution of Naval Architects of which Dana was the Secretary. Six of the letters are 4to 1 p; the other is 12mo 1 p. All good on lightly aged paper. All bearing the Society's stamp and most docketed. On a variety of subjects: a proposed paper by 'Herr Frahm' the use by the Institution of the Royal Society's library for a council meeting the delivery to the Society of a 'model tank that is coming from Germany' 'the reader of the paper is sending his representative over from Germany to superintend matters' and a 'Proposed Memorial to the late Sir William White' 'with reference to Mr. Bailey Saunders and Mr. C. R. Graves. The latter would I think be an excellent selection for the General Committee and I have no doubt an agreeable one to the numbers'. 1911 (3 letters) and 1913 (4 letters); all on letterhead of the Institution of Naval Architects (of which Dana was the Secretary unknown