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StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	GALTON/3/3/1/16
Title	Andersson, Charles John
Date	1852-1866
Description	Manuscript letters. Letters mainly concerning payment of bills and travels to South Africa. Particular items: Letter dated 4 April 1855: Galton added a note that he cannot advance Andersson any money because it would inconvenience him. Other letters concern editing Andersson's book. Letter dated 21 September 1857: mentions the discovery of a fresh water lake by Mr Green (Frederick Thomas Green). Letter dated 19 July 1860: Andersson had returned to Cape Town asking what Galton expects from a survey of the Sinai. Letter dated 8 September 1864: Andersson explained that he hasn't been able to reply because he is recovering from a gun shot wound. Letter dated 31 May 1865: discusses behaviour of solitary animals and Galton's paper on the domestication of animals. Letter dated 8 December 1865: mentions writing about the fauna of the birds of South West Africa. Letters dated 15 March 1866 and 17 April 1866: concerning Andersson's map for the Royal Geographical Society. One incomplete letter.
Extent	20 letters
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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