| Description | Letters to Pearson regarding work undertaken with the Biometric Laboratory to collect and analyse biometric data on prison inmates in Britain, and the publication of [and delays to] Goring, <i>The English Convict: a statistical study</i>, (London: H.M.S.O; 1913). The letters also discuss Pearson's work; news of colleagues and mutual acquaintances; instances of alcoholism amongs the prison population; Goring's criticism of staff and working practices at the Home Office; Pearson's article "Wie steht's mit der deutschen Cultur?", and the First World War; Goring's research into the influence of war on the prevalence of crime; and the gathering of further data from prisons. |