| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | PEARSON/3/15/6/6 |
| Title | Notes, Letters and Press Cuttings Regarding Studies into Parental Alcoholism |
| Date | 1908-Feb 1911 |
| Description | <p>Cuttings from <i>The Westminster Gazette</i>, the <i>British Medical Journal</i>, and <i>The Times</i>, showing letters and articles concerning the debate over alcoholism and degeneracy, and its impact on children.</p>
<p>Manuscript notes and tables on calculating the frequency of inebriation.</p>
<p>Letters: draft letter from Karl Pearson to the<i>British Medical Journal</i> regarding his research and the rebuttal by Victor Horsley and Dr Sharpe; letter from Helen Kerr to Karl Pearson regarding his enquiries into the Edinburgh Social Investigation Report on alcoholism; letters from Ethel Elderton to Karl Pearson regarding Keynes' interpretation of charitable assistance statistics, the C.O.S. report and her calculations for alcohol consumption across trades, plus a draft letter to the <i>Journal of the Royal Statistical Society</i> in reply to Dr Keynes.</p> |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| AccessStatus | Certain restrictions apply |
| AccessConditions | One sheet from the Westminster Gazette, posted to Karl Pearson from Francis Galton and containing a report of a talk by Galton on Eugenics, is in poor condition. The original will not be produced for researchers but a digitised surrogate is available on request. The remainder of the papers in this file are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |