180 Life and Lettrrx nf Fraud* Gal ton 



pasMd and she it alinosl and look» quite lienielf again'. We were staying with Judge Grove at 

 the time, 5n a houw he had taken in Dorsetahii-e for tlie shooting, — and his extreme kindness 

 and tliat of all the family wo can nevt-r forget. 



I am ivji(ice<l at the very rimkI account you give of your heaidi, and the go<Kl news of your 

 Father. .Someliody ought to make a fortune by "Drosera pills" — vcgetjible }M-p8iii! The name 

 would Iw capital. Poor Hooker, — what a frightfid blow, — and a young family of girls wanting 

 a mother. 



We have lxH>n at Ixwmingtoii for a fortnight and return liome tomorrow. Previously we 

 were at liournemouth, when I n-newed an acquaintance with H. Venn of Caius, who is great 

 on "Chaucer." I wonder wliat yi>ur work now is. I saw your rejoinder in the Quarterli/ but 

 not the original attack. I have alluded to your article on " Ilestrictions etc." in my book, which 

 ought to be out soon. Ever yours, Francis Oalton 



Qborqe Darwin, Esq. 



42, lluTLAM) (iATE, S.W. Jan. t<, 75. 



Mt dear Gkoroe, Thanks for Lady U 's letter, though her correspondent says little, 



and many thanks for your letter 3 or 4 days since. 



That "curve of double curvature" was a sat! slip for "curve of contrary flexure." The other 

 point, I unluckily cannot answer, for I cannot get from the printer my copies of the paper and 

 do not recall the passage or context. When we next meet T will tell you. Thank you much for 

 the equation to the ogive. 



Dr A. Clarke and nature have done me a world of good ; my heart is set a going again and 

 he quite withdraws a somewhat dispiriting diagnosis which he mode when he first saw me. He 

 told me of your diagram, on the facts of which 1 most heartily congnitulate you. 



On Thursday, Jan. I 1th, there will l>e a SUitistical Council when the jmjK'rs will probably 

 be arranged. H I get there, 1 will send a postcard to tell when your paper is to come in. 



My twin papers come in and some are very interesting. J. Wilson of Rugby is a twin and 



sends me lots of addresses. I got a most curious letter from Lady E , whose family abounds 



with twins, besides one treble and one quadruple birth. I feel saturated with midwifery and am 

 haunted with imaginary odours of pap and caudle ! You have real odours of pitch and tar. 



Ever sincerely, Francis Galton. 

 Georoe Darwin, Esq. 



42, Rutland Gate, London. April Mllb. 



My dear Darwin, George told me that you would very kindly have some sweet-peaa 

 planted for me, and save me the pn>duce. 1 send them in a separate envelope with marked bags 

 t<) put the ]iroduce in, and full instructions which I think your gardener will easily understand. 

 I am most anxious to repair the disaster of last year by which I lost the prcnluce of all my sweet- 

 peas at Kew. With very many thanks, Yours very faithfully, Francis Galton. 



June 2nd, 1875. (Fontainkbleau, at present only.) 



Mv dear Darwin, Thank you very much for your kind letter and information. It delights 

 me that (notwithstanding the Frenchman's a.ssertion) the large jx-os do really produce large 

 plants, and that the extreme sizes sown (except Q) are coming up. I could not and did not 

 hope for complete success in rearing all the seedlings, but have little doubt that the sizes that 

 have failed may be supplemented by partial success elsewhere. 



We have found Fontainebleau very pleasant and are now moving on via Neuchfttel, with 

 some hope that George may, as he wa.s inclined to do, hereafter fall in with us. He knows how 

 to loam our address from time to time. My wife is already markedly better. With our united 

 kindest remembrances to you all. Ever yours, Francis Gai.ton. 



It seems absurd to coniimtulatf you on your election to the Vienna Academy, Ijecause you 

 are a long way abore such honours, but I am glad thfy have so 8trengthene<l their list by lulding 

 your name to it. 



' The g^ve anxiety of a recurrence hung like a sword alx)ve the heads of the Gallons for 

 many years. Mrs Oalton 's Rncurd shows that fmm this time onward, till her death, she waS 

 more or less an invalid,Mn2frequent pain, which limited largely her social activities. 



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