192 Life and Let f erg of Franc! a (i alt on 



42 Rutland Gate, Jan. X^jn. 



Mt OBAR Dahwis, Thanks very iniiiiy; WIr-m you cimie across tlje essay I should be very 

 l^ad to Me it. I know of a curious Swinn memoir, something apimrenily to the same ctloct, in 

 which the author says that the Swiss yeomen are very apt to le.ive their homesteiul to a sickly 

 son, knowing that he will not bo cjilleil out on service, nor tempted to take service abroad in 

 any form, but will stay at home and look after the property. Consequently the Swiss landed 

 imputation tend to deteriorate. 



I will tr}' hard to put in practice 3'our valuable hints about making my lecture as little 

 unint4>llim'ible and dull as may he and have hopes of succeeding somewhat. George has most 

 kindly taken infinite pains U) the same end. Ever sincerely yours, Francis Galton. 



Charles Darwin, Esq. 



Down, Feb. 11th. [1877?] 



My dear G. The enclosed is worth your looking at. It was sent me from N. Zealand as 

 the writer thought we should not in England see Tickner's Lifel I should think T. was to be 

 trusted, and if so case very curious. It makes me believe statement about inherited hand> 

 writing. I shall never work on inheritancre again. The extract need not be returned. 



Ever yours, C. Darwin. 



I do hope Mrs Galton is pretty well again. 



42, Rutland Gate, Feb. 22/77. 



My dear Darwin, Hy this iKHjk post I return Tickner's lxx)k with many thanks (after 

 keeping it an unconscionable time, but I knew you did not want it and it wa.s u.seful to refer 

 to to me). 



About the deaf and dumb men speaking with Castilian etc. accent, according to their 

 teachers, I cannot help thinking it surticieiitly explained by their imitntion of the a»;tions of 

 the lips etc. of the teachers. I have tried in a l<>oking-glas.s, and it seems that I mouth quite 

 differently when I speak broa<l Scotch; again, la-st year, I was trying some experiments with 

 Barlow's 'logograph ' and the traces were greatly modified under different conditions of ca<lence. 



I.«t me, before ending, heartily congratulate you on the German and Dutch t«stinionial of 

 which I see a notice in to-day's Tinws, and take the opportunity of wishing you many, very 

 many happy returns of the birthday. Ever sincerely yours, Francis Galton. 



My wife is convalescent and alre^idy walks out a little. 



42, Rutland Gatk, May 24/78. 



Mv DEAR Darwin, The enclose*! "Composite Portraits" will perhaps interest you. The 

 description of them is in this week's Nature (p. 97). You will see that I have there published 

 the letter you kindly forwarded to me from Mr Austin of New Zealand (to whom I am now 

 about to write a second time). Together with the villain's (absit omen!) I send 3 of our own 

 family anccstoi-s which I have liad made, and for which you may wire to find some place soine- 

 when-. The original portraits are in the possession of Reginald Darwin and are those of our uncle 

 Sir Francis Darwin and of our great-grandfather and of our great gn-at-grandfather i-«^8p<<ctively' 

 (as you will find written on their Ijacks). These tjike the I)arwin family )>iick for '_'i centuries. 

 There se<'ms to be a great «leal of the Darwin type in William !)arwin b. ItiSf). 



I hear vague rumours of your wonderful inve.stigations in the growth etc. of plants, and am 

 eager for the time when they shall be published. Ever sincerely yours, Francis Galton. 



Down, Beckeniiam, Kent. March 22/79. 



My dear Galton, Dr Krause has published in Germany a little life of Dr Eras. Darwin, 

 chierty in relstion to his scientific views; and t4) do our grandfather honour, my brother Eras, 

 and myN<'!f intend to have it publishe<l in English. I intend to write a short ])refaco to it, 

 chiefly for the sake of contra<licling the chief of Miss Sewanl's calumnies; and this I can do 

 from having a letter from your aunts written at the time, and from my father's correspondence 

 witii Miss Seward. Hut I further intend to add a few ivmarks almut our grandfatlu;r. Can 

 you aid me with any information or documental 



' See Platee VI and LXII in Vol. i and remarks on p. 243. 



