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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number PEARSON/8
TitleThe Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton
Date1840-1931
DescriptionPapers, 1840-1931, relating to Karl Pearson's The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1914), vols I, II, IIIa, IIIb. Consisting of:
Manuscript and typescript drafts, excerpts and notes, including a manuscript draft of Pearson's Francis Galton, 1822-1922, a Centenary Appreciation, (1922).
Research papers on the ancestors and pedigrees of Charles Robert Darwin and Francis Galton.
Copies of letters sent and received by Galton from the Darwin and Galton families, and from scientific acquaintances.
Copies of plates, prints and other images used across the 3 three volumes.
Letters to Pearson regarding the biography, plus clippings of reviews.
Extent11 boxes
ArrangementArranged chronologically according to subject.
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.
Related MaterialMany of the materials here are copies or extracts of originals found in GALTON/1.
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