| Description | Correspondence, notes and typescript drafts of a lecture by E S Pearson titled "Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics, 1890-94" which was delivered as a talk in Princeton in 1961 with the title "Some Incidents in the Early History of Biometry and Statistics" but subsequently published with the revised title as part of the Biometrika History Series no. XIV in 1965. Includes copies of letters between W F R Weldon, Karl Pearson and F Y Edgeworth dated 1894, and original letters from R L Plackett, Joseph W Scott, Helga Hacker, and M G Kendall to ESP dated 1965. Letters from J W Scott and Helga Hacker concern ESP's research within the Galton papers held at UCL. |