| Description | Manuscript and typescript. Letters from M B Webb, wife of Sidney Webb (Baron Passfield). Letter dated 1894 on Pearson's article; and letters in 1930 turning down the opportunity to review The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton, but offering to find a competent reviewer for publication in the Daily Herald; on likelihood of selective breeding programmes by governments; feeling too old to review the Galton work, and asking if Pearson knows Lancelot Hogben; and suggesting a BBC programme by Pearson on Galton, as part of the "Eminent Victorians" series. |