Council minutes, vol. 12
Volume of minutes of the Council, including the following selected entries: the text of a letter to HM Treasury, following a request to open the exhibition in the evenings, 25 January 1862; the transcript of a letter from
C. B. Phipps on behalf of
Queen Victoria declining to interfere in the work of the Royal Commission of 1863, in response to an address from the Royal Academy of 15 June 1864, 4 July 1864; a copy of a letter from Peter Cooper, Office of Works, to the Secretary,
John Prescott Knight offering the use of a site at Burlington House on a long lease provided changes be made in the constitution of the Royal Academy in accordance with the proposals of the Royal Commission of 1863, 18 December 1865 and the Secretary’s draft resolutions for the creation of a class of Honorary Foreign Academicians, 11 July 1867; and the form in which the proposals were submitted to the General Assembly, 19 March 1868.