'In answer to your letter let me say that I sympathise with your desire to obtain good illustrations in the publication of your work on "nuove forme etc". It will give me pleaseure to be of any help I can. The Royal Society is that of our learned societies which can best afford to publish the expensive illustrations you desire. I am a fellow of the Society & a member of its Committee of Papers. I will - with your permission - propose to the Committee to publish your paper fully illustrated and in Italian text, if you send it... Naturally I cannot promise that which only the Committee as a whole can decide, but I beleive from my knowledge of the value and accuracy of your work that the Society would publish your work fully illustrated (as you desire) paying all the required expense.'