| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | PEARSON/11/2/13/5 |
| Title | Pearson, Margaret Victoria (ne Child) |
| Date | 1925-1932 |
| Date2 | 1962 |
| Description | Consists of letters from Karl Pearson to Margaret Child "Greta" (married Karl Pearson on 22 Mar 1929).
Folder 1 : 1925-1928
Grateful for extra time given to Laboratory work (1925); holiday in Saig (1928); engagement, runic inscription for ring, telling his children about the engagement, Helga's engagement to Dr Hacker (1928); concerning the runic inscription by Sigrid (1962); An allegory after Olive Schreiner's 'Dream' - Was it a fair bargain? by Karl Pearson
Folder 2 : 1929-1932
arrangements for the wedding; his feelings for Margaret; servants; writing lectures; note about querns; movements of the children and arrangements to meet; arrangements for Coldharbour; writing a will; moving Margaret's books; discussion about the garden (1931); two poems for Margaret (one written for Mia and copied for Margaret, two weeks before they were married in 1929). |
| Extent | 102 letters, 13 postcards, 3 envelopes, 3 enclosures |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |