Writing as newly-elected Secretary of the Royal Society to the secretary of the Academie Francaise, Birch sends news of the health of the Society's President and of changes in the editorial policy of Philosophical Transactions. In French. Acc.: 04.12.23
3 p., with address. 25 x 20 cm. Sends poem, "On the death of the Poet, J.G.C. Brainerd", 6 verses of 9 lines each, beginning: I rov'd where Thames old Ocean's breast doth cheer... She explains that the poem will be published in The Token for 1830.