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been 16 King's Street, Covent Giirdeu'. Francis Galton liad many 

 friends about him in London; the friendship with the Hallams had 

 strengthened since the German visit. Emma Galton was staying with 

 the Gurneys in St James Square in February, and had visited the 

 British Museum with Mr and Miss Hallam, meeting there Miss Edge- 

 worth, Samuel Rogers and Macintosh, and in July of 1845, she was 

 staying at Nailsea with the Hallams. Tertius and Violetta Galton 

 were in London in February and calling on the Hallams. But the 

 friendship of Francis Galton and Henry Hallam seems to have ripened 

 most in the latter part of 1844 and in 1846, from which years several 

 very affectionate letters from Hallam to Galton have survived, to which 

 some reference will be made in the following chapter. 



Very tender are the letters from Tertius to his son Francis during 

 the last nine months of his life. He was clearly very anxious that 

 Francis should concentrate himself on medicine and should follow a 

 definite profession in life. Nor does he fail to remind him of family 

 claims. 



" I hope you will go to Shrewsbury at Easter as you ought to see 

 Uncle Bob before he dies " — is the prompting that comes from home 

 before the Easter visit (see p. 186), which had doubtless been several 

 times postponed. 



On Feb. 4th, 1844, Tertius writes: 



"As Bessy has no doubt given you much sahitary advice as to exclusive attention 

 to medicine, I forbear repeating to you all that Horner said to me on the importance of 

 it to success in London practice as founded upon his own observation and the remarks 

 of many leading medical men of his acquaintance." 



And again on Mai'ch 'Jth : 



" I am extremely glad that you take so fondly to your profession upon e\ery account, 

 as an occupation useful to yourself and to others, and as a source of pecuniary inde- 

 pendence, which, after all, it is among the number of our duties to promote I 



admire your courage in taking the pledge, and your motives for it, and am glad that the 

 plan agrees with you. Adele tells me that in your case unlike that of the gin-drinking 

 lady, resolution was rewarded beforehand." 



Emma Galton, writing on March 4 of the failing health of her 

 father, Tertius, says, " My father has said over and over again ' Give 



' A letter from Tertius Galton to Francis, dated June 30, 1844, and enclosing the 

 last Cambridge College bill is thus addressed. Tertius speaks of himself as still weak 

 and restless. 



