| Description | <p>Manuscript. About his intention to apply for the post of Principal Librarian and Superintendent at the London Institution; his mother's critical illness and death; enclosing pedigrees of two families with twins; about fond memories of their youth; condolences on W F R Weldon's death; asks Karl to holiday with him in Scotland; on death of William Pearson; copy of <i>Sonnets and Songs</i> sent to Karl as a Christmas present; sympathy to Karl over attacks in press following the memoir on offspring of alcoholic parents; agreeing to see Miss Gertrude Jones and a successful divorce case; on reading of publication of <i>The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton</i>; thanks Karl for his paper on German culture, and discusses effect of the outbreak of war on the family; on hearing Kenneth Cobb had been killed, and on his son Ray and brother John's experiences in service; sorrow over Ray's death on the Passchendaele; about Arthur Hugh Pearson-Gee; on human breeding and evolution; about his relationship with his father following his death; and on prospects and assessment of the current generation.</p>
<p>Also includes a letter in February 1921 to Helga Pearson about changes in relations between men and women, her work with reptiles, and his religion.</p> |