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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number GALTON/3/3/7/10
TitleGalton, Sir Francis to Leonard Darwin
Date1878-1910
DescriptionManuscript letters. Concerns photographing heads of soldiers with diagram (letter dated 1 Jul 1878); hopes he will like the medallion of Erasmus Darwin by Onslow Ford; letter dated 13 Aug 1879 Galton announced that 'my dear wife died here at 2.45 this morning' with details of illness; letter dated 12 Dec 1898 discusses ancestral law and natural selection; letters from 1910 discuss eugenics; grateful to George Darwin (brother) to accept Copley Medal from the Royal Society for him.
Extent21 letters
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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