Letters Pasted in Published Books

Forty letters and eight pages of notes by Francis Galton that have been found either pasted into or tucked inside library books from the Galton Laboratory. Includes letters to or from the following people (names in brackets denote missing items):

Allman, G J

Bois-Raymond, A du

Bulloch, W

Collins, Frederick Howard

Coryton

Darion, George

Darwin, Sir Horace

Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Ottawa, Canada

Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro

Ely, Richard, T

Free Lance, A

Furness, Walter Rogers

[Galton, Emma Sophia] Galton, Sir Francis (15 sets of notes 8 pages)

Graham, Cyril

Hagar, Frank N

Herschel, William

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Hopkins, Manley

Jevons, William Stanley

Johnstone, George

Kidd, Benjamin

Krauss, Frierich (3 letters)

Legg, John Wickham

Leland, Charles Godfrey

Lyell, Katharine M

McLennan, Ellen A

Major, Richard Henry (3 letters)

Nicholson, Miss

Paget, Sir James

Pelly, Amy Henrietta

Roberts, Charles

Schooling, John Holt

Scott, Robert H

Sharm, M

Smith, Mary

Smith, Reginald Bosworth (3 letters)

Spottiswoode, G A

Spratt, T A B

Sutherland, Alexander

Tappan, Majorie

Thomson, Sir (John) Arthur (2 letters)

Tupp, Alfred Cotterell

Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett

Wallace, John Hankins

Welby, Victoria Alexandrina.

Vámbéry, Arminius.

1873-1910

47 items

These letters have been catalogued alphabetically by name of correspondent, following the method used in the old list for this collection. However, they remain physically inside the collection of Galton Bequest books.

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

These letters were described in the original list for the Galton collection as "Forty letters and fifteen sets of notes by FG to be found in the Galton Bequest books in three bookcases housed in the Galton Laboratory, Univ. Coll. Lond.". The Galton Bequest books are a library of approximately seven hundred volumes which were formerly housed in the Galton Laboratory but have now been transferred to UCL Special Collections.

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.