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MS ADD 305 - Butler Family Letters

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Collection
Reference Number	MS ADD 305
Title	Butler Family Letters
Date	1877-1911
Description	Letters between the Butler family and Sir Francis Galton, and between members of the family. Many of the letters are from Galton to his brother-in-law Arthur Butler.
Extent	1 folder
AdminHistory	Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) married Louisa Jane Butler (d.1897) in 1853. Louisa's father was George Butler (1774-1853), dean of Peterborough and previously headmaster of Harrow School. Her mother was Sarah Maria Gray from Wembley Park, Middlesex. Louisa had many brothers and sisters, one of whom was Arthur Butler. She and Galton had no children.
Acquisition	Presented through Dorothy Middleton in 1983 by Arthur Butler's grandaughter, Mrs Christina Colvin, in memory of her father, Professor Harold Edgeworth Butler, Professor of Latin at University College London, 1911-1943.
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.
FindingAids	Collection level description.

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