520 Life and Letters of Francis Galton 



42, Rutland Gate, S.W. October 29, 1900. 



My dear "chattell" Eva, I am delighted that you are now to be altogether transferred 

 to me and to take charge of my household henceforth. You weren't transferred qui/, as 

 a "chattell " (I don't know how many t's or l's there are in the word) as 1 said in my letter to 



your father "if she acquiesces " So you will now have "42, Rutland Gate " at the bottom of 



your visiting cards. I am very glad we shall meet so soon. 



Violet left this morning. It was pleasant having her. She will get a sight of the C.I.Y.'s 

 to-day. I have not been sight-seeing. It rained heavily till near two, and the ground in the park 

 must now be sloppy. I forgot to tell you that one of the first persons whom I met after you 

 left me, was James Knowles (the Editor of the Nineteenth Century and originally an 

 architect) ; it was he who built Tennyson's house. He told me much about it, which I will tell 

 you. He was staying some weeks at Hindhead this summer and was curious to learn about the 

 Townshends. Knowles was a great friend of Tennyson, and of many notabilities — rather 

 Boswellry in his disposition. 



Guy Lethbridge made his appearance yesterday, looking very nice and gentlemanly. He has 

 been horse-buying on commission, in Ireland. Tommy and Grizel is wonderful. I finished 

 it last night, after eleven o'clock. The characters "grow up" quite naturally, so it is an exact 

 sequel to the other book. I took Milly and Amy to see Julius Caesar (last representation) on 

 Saturday, and learnt immensely. 1. Julius Caesar is made so egoistic and vain as to be odious 

 to the assassins, or to most of them, and to be insufferably arrogant. So they hated him. 

 2. Cassius is not a pale thin student^like man, but vigorous and powerful (which his story of 

 saving Caesar from drowning justifies). He is a lean, bilious man, full of energy and hatred, and 

 a very d — 1 as an enemy. Ever affectionately, Francis Galton. 



Poor Walter Butler is at death's door, but his state is not hopeless, quite. 



British Museum, London, W.C. July 19, 1901. 



Dear Mr Galton, Here is the result of our experiment. How do you like it 1 I do not 

 doubt that with more careful preparation one could increase the area of sharpness a little, but 

 probably not very much. The developed neck irresistibly suggests shoulders, and the best way 

 of restoring it to intelligibility is to bend the print backwards into a cylinder. It is curious and 

 pretty the way in which the square pedestal has come out. 



Yours very sincerely, Arthur II. Smith. 



Photograph enclosed. 



As by the aid of a panoramic camera the whole view round a hill top may- 

 be photographed on a single plate, so the idea in the above experiment was 

 to take on a single plate a continuous picture all round a statue or bust. 

 The result is shown on the accompanying plate. 



Hotel des Anglais, Valescure, pres St Raphael (Yar), France. 

 Nov. 28, 1902. (We stay on here for quite a week longer.) 



Dearest Milly, If you can only let your Knole Lodge and get the pretty Prestbury ! 

 I am so glad you are strong again. 



I am quite well too. The asthma left me more than a week ago and the bronchitis went 

 a little later, so that — pity my sense of loneliness, at missing the habitual cough ! Even a 

 grumbling farmer could hardly beat that. My room was stuffily carpeted, so notwithstanding 

 the pure outside air I had violent bouts of asthma every night. So I had the carpets taken up, 

 and a large sackful of straw that had been spread beneath them for warmth went with them. I feel 

 sure on reflection that all my worst coughs have been connected with well warmed and stuffily 

 carpeted rooms. So I am about to take strenuous measures at Rutland Gate. The floors of the 

 dining and drawing rooms and of my bedroom are to be parqueted. The very old paper of the 

 drawing room is to be stripped off and the walls painted white, like the staircase, and carpets 

 abolished in favour of rugs. So I hope to be able to spend more months out of the 12 in my 

 own house than hitherto. " Hope springs eternal " 



