| Description | Correspondence between E S Pearson and various others, primarily regarding the use of the Karl Pearson papers including requests for permission to view material, copying and publishing. Includes two photographs of Galton's 'bean-counter' or lead shot machine (Quincunx) and a parsnip seed machine at the Department of Statistics, possibly an invention of Karl Pearson's. Also correspondence regarding George Bernard Shaw letters in the KP papers; ESP's publication of some of KP's lectures; ESP's gift of money towards the use of scientific manuscripts at UCL and information about the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre; letters from Maxine Merrington and others regarding the cataloguing of KP's papers and the transfer of ESP's papers to UCL archives. |