Record

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	PEARSON/3/9/2/2
Title	Letters from Lawrason Brown (Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium) to Karl Pearson
Date	1908-1913
Description	Consists of typed letters re sanatorium data used by Karl Pearson and William Palin Elderton. Concerns the possibility of finishing off Ernest Pope's work but feels that he knew little about the statistical side of assortative mating (see PEARSON/3/9/2); Dr Austin Flint's father's records; details about how cards were filled out in regard to tuberculin cases; details about weight tables (enclosed); death rates in England; paper on the causes of death in tuberculosis; enclosure about Dr Flint's card dated 15 May 1911 and manuscript notes about Brown's cards; explanation of abbreviations; examples of cards from Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium.
Extent	19 letters and 4 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.

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