Item 5 - Letter from Richard Beamish

3 pp

Harmony Lodge, New Glanmire, Cork - At the Cheltenham meeting of the British Association WW allowed RB to make a tracing of his hand: 'Since that time I have obtained so much evidence of the value of the hand as an index of moral and intellectual development that I am induced to prepare a work upon the subject for the press, and I venture to ask your permission to introduce your hand as illustration of the philosophic type'.