| Description | Forty letters and eight pages of notes by Francis Galton that have been found either pasted into or tucked inside library books from the Galton Laboratory. Includes letters to or from the following people (names in brackets denote missing items):
Allman, G J
Bois-Raymond, A du
Bulloch, W
Collins, Frederick Howard
Coryton
Darion, George
Darwin, Sir Horace
Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Ottawa, Canada
Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro
Ely, Richard, T
Free Lance, A
Furness, Walter Rogers
[Galton, Emma Sophia]
Galton, Sir Francis (15 sets of notes 8 pages)
Graham, Cyril
Hagar, Frank N
Herschel, William
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Hopkins, Manley
Jevons, William Stanley
Johnstone, George
Kidd, Benjamin
Krauss, Frierich (3 letters)
Legg, John Wickham
Leland, Charles Godfrey
Lyell, Katharine M
McLennan, Ellen A
Major, Richard Henry (3 letters)
Nicholson, Miss
Paget, Sir James
Pelly, Amy Henrietta
Roberts, Charles
Schooling, John Holt
Scott, Robert H
Sharm, M
Smith, Mary
Smith, Reginald Bosworth (3 letters)
Spottiswoode, G A
Spratt, T A B
Sutherland, Alexander
Tappan, Majorie
Thomson, Sir (John) Arthur (2 letters)
Tupp, Alfred Cotterell
Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett
Wallace, John Hankins
Welby, Victoria Alexandrina.
Vmbry, Arminius. |
| CustodialHistory | These letters were described in the original list for the Galton collection as "Forty letters and fifteen sets of notes by FG to be found in the Galton Bequest books in three bookcases housed in the Galton Laboratory, Univ. Coll. Lond.". The Galton Bequest books are a library of approximately seven hundred volumes which were formerly housed in the Galton Laboratory but have now been transferred to UCL Special Collections. |