| Description | Consists of inventory of linen and plate of Karl Pearson. Presumably of Christ Church Cottage written by Fanny Pearson (mother). Note on envelope states that Karl Pearson moved there from 2 Harcourt Buildings, Inner Temple in Mar 1888. He took this cottage so that his mother could live with him, instead of leaving London if his father decided on retiring from bar practice to move to the house he had bought at Sleightholmdale, Yorkshire. In summer 1889 William Pearson bought a house (Burnside) at Pinner and on hearing this, Karl went to Opeim, Norway with Ralph Thicknesse. Maria was on holiday there with her sisters, Letty and Lina, and he asked her to marry him. |