Description | Manuscript. Comprises letters about Julia Bell's holiday in West Lulworth with M S Pearson's description of place, on Bell's operation, on Bell's mother's illness and death, inviting her to Keswick, about a litter of puppies, progress of the Pearson children, thanking her for the Martin Schngauer print (at Christmas 1912), about the women's suffrage movement, about Bell's plans to leave mathematical work and turn to medicine, about the family's war work, on popular lectures on science for non-specialists and role of women in teaching, sympathy over death of Dr Newsome, enclosing poems by Walter de la Mere for Bell's recuperation from illness, apologies for missing Bell's lecture on "colour vision", enclosing an article about Charlotte Mary Yonge and nineteenth century womanhood, about portaits of Karl Pearson and other academics by Frances Amicia de Biden Footner, and thanks for gifts and cards. |