| Description | Letters between Maria Sharpe Pearson and her sister, Loetitia Sharpe. Manuscript. Contains postcards and letters dated June - September 1890, after Maria's marriage to Karl, about her love for Karl and family, activities and travels in Norway on their honeymoon, including accounts of the places and people, meeting friends; letters in 1897and 1898 to Loetitia (Letty) in Venice about Letty's travelling and family news, about the children Sigrid and Egon and "working out of our autumn illnesses", enclosing a letter from May Besant on her illness, on Karl's relationship with Francis Galton and reading his "New Year's Greeting on the Law of Ancestral Heredity"; and letters dated 1926 on thanking Letty for a gift and the "raison d'etre" of the Coldharbour residence as preventing illness, and her happiness at visit to Letty to find her well and her mind "lively". |