Hind to The Secretary of the United States Legation, March 12, 1879

Sir: I take the liberty of addressing you in my capacity of foreign secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society. The council of the society have awarded their gold medal to Prof. Asaph Hall, Naval Observatory, Washington, for his discovery of the satellites of Mars, and I am requested by our President Lord Lindsay to ask if, in order to insure the safe delivery of the medal to Professor Hall, you could conveniently forward it to Washington. Should you be able to do the society this favor, the medal shall be left at the United States legation immediately.

I have, &c.,