160 LiJ*' niul lA'ttcrtt of Fnntciis (i alt on 



You «re very kind in giving me so much valuable advice and so much encouragement. 



Miss Gihbe's review is very characteristic. She has not, however, quite ciiuKht what 1 am 

 driving at in religious matters and which —if the book shall be enough rea<i to make it reason- 

 able for me to do so— I shall express more clearly. Very sincerely yours, Fuancis Ualton. 



The religious views are probably those of the Hereditary (renius : see 

 our p. 114. The review, entitled: 'Hereditary Piety',' by F'rances Power 

 CJobbe, will be found in the Theological lievieic, April, 1870. I do not know 

 whether she was at this time a correspondent of Galton's, but she wa« so 

 iu 1877. 



(7) "), Uehtik Tekiuik, Lkaminiiton. April 'IfijlO. 

 My dkab Dakwin, Two more litters and no happy results, the young being all true silver 



greys. There ought to have been a third litter but the iI(h» had not kindled. I shall next give 

 a fresh infusion to every one of my old st<K'k and hojx' to raise the proportion of alien bUxxJ in 

 their bodies to at least 3 per cent of their entire weight, or, say 30 per cent, of their entire 

 blood. 



I am obliged to defer all this for a w(H?k or two longer for my mother haw In-eii lying iit the 

 verge of death for a fortnight and I am wante<l by her. She is now a tritie better and her 

 illness — the result of bronchitis — may l>e less acute for a while and I may be able to get l>ack 

 to London. We have no reasonable hope that she will ever recover even a more moderate 

 d^^ree of health. Very sincerely yours, Francis Oalton. 



(8) 42, Rutland Gatk, S.W. May 12, 1870 (written at the Athenaeum). 



My deak Darwiv, Good rabbit news! One of the latest litters has a white forefoot It 

 was bom April 23rd, but as we did not disturb the young, the forefoot was not olwervod till 

 to-day. The little things had huddled together showing only their backs and liejids, and the 

 foot was never suspecte<l. The mother was injected from a grey and white and the father from 

 a black and white. Thi.s, recollect, is from a transfusion of only l/8th part of alien blood in 

 each parent; now, after many unsuccessful experiments, 1 have greatly improved the method 

 of operation and am beginning on the other jugulars of my stock. Yesterday I operated on 2 

 who are doing well to-tlay, and who now have l/3nl alien blood in tlxiir veins. On Saturday I 

 hope for still greater success, and shall go on. ..until I get at least one-half alien blood. Tlie 

 experiment is not fair to Pangenesis until I do. 



We are for the time relieved from anxiety about my p<M>r dear Mother, who suffered the 

 agonies of death over and over again, but has strangely pulled through, and is now comfortable 

 though very weak and seriously shaken. Very sincerely yours, Francis Galton. 



"The appearance of an 'orphan foot,' or even two, in normally whole- 

 coloured animals purely-bred is a common event; but it i.s inteni.sting to note 

 how Galton seized any feature he could that supported inungrelisation, and 

 thus the demonstration of the truth of 'pangenesis.' He discusses this white 

 foot, pp. 402-3 of his pai>er, but, I think, might have dismissed it as he did 

 the white noses and flare of some of his first bat<;h of litters. 



(9) 42, Rutland Gate, S.W. June 1st, 1870 (written at the Athenaeum). 



Mv DEAR Darwin, Though I have no new litter to report, and shall have only one l)efore 

 the end of the month, I do not like to let more time go by, without heartily thanking j-ou for 

 your helpful and encouraging letter. I will not trouble you with details now, but simply say 

 that I feel sure, unless some unexpected disaster to my stock should arise, that I shall have a 

 very complete set of experiments finished before August My bucks have been heavily re- trans- 

 fused and I have a doe in the same state. Also 1 shall have all the combinations, extreme and 

 intermediate, of pure and transfused bucks with pure and tran8fuse<l doe.s. 



I find 1 cannot manage pigeons for want of a dove-cot, and dare not try dogs lest the 

 2jOological Gardens should Ix; alarmed by the noise and 1 should lie extruded. But notwith- 



' Reprinted in Dartcinimn in Morals, and other Eit»ay», 1872. 



