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StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	PEARSON/11/2/13/6
Title	Pearson, Sigrid Loetitia Sharpe (later Bousfield)
Date	1895-1935
Description	<p>Consists of letters from Karl Pearson to his daughter, Sigrid (b 1891)</p> <p>Early letters contain stories "How the Raven found Dwarfina" (15 Mar 1895); describing the farm at Keswick (Jul 1895); announcing her new brother (Aug 1895); telling her to work hard at school (1901); family news; about going to a new school (1905); what Karl was like at school (13 Apr 1907); mentions the Petrie baby has his father [Flinders Petrie] home (16 May 1908 when at Roedean in Brighton); plans for her education (5 Jun 1909); advice on subjects at Cambridge (9 Oct 1911); mention of Mrs Pankhurst and the Lawrences (18 Oct 1912); treatise on dwarfism (no date); concerning his work in Bradford (9 Feb 1913); advice about teaching and exams at Cambridge (1913); trying to find a hospital that takes women students (24 Mar 1917); mother's illness (1927); memories of mother (1930); holiday in Saig (1930); advice on adopting (1930); Lena Eckenstein's will and Helga as executrix (1931); remembering the day Sigrid was born (23 Aug 1931); looking forward to the wedding (1934).</p>
Extent	82 letters
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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