Cobbe, Frances Power

Date:
24 Aug 1877
Reference:
GALTON/3/3/3/23
Part of:
Galton Papers
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Manuscript letter. Sends photograph of a murderer for Galton's collection and provides details of the murder. Enclosures: envelope and a photograph of the man, Ladwalladen Jones (Maker: Evan Owen). Notes on the reverse: "murderer...most cold blooded...He had been married some months, and murdered the girl to whom he had previously promised marriage, having first dug out her grave. There was no quarrel - quite the contrary- illegitimate offspring by both women...the wife had a child a little after marriage and the murdered girl was with child by him".

Publication/Creation

24 Aug 1877

Physical description

1 letter, 1 photograph plus 1 envelope

Location of duplicates

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

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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.

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Location of original

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.

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