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annuity of £26 and to Ann the housemaid an annuity of £26. The servants will stav on till 

 January Ml to. had thought of all sorts of things for the CanTero„tbut htnTnin" 

 a letter came that Mr berocold was very ill indeed, so Cameron left at 3 o'clock and his Tfe was 



dfe hiwt, 7 " T t0 g °, i° the Riviera t0 See Mr ' Serocold ' as *ey think he will 

 die— na\ing had two operations and being very feeble 



Edward Wheler writes how very cold it is, and so much snow at Alnwick. My House smells 

 of Puddings and Cakes-and now the Mincepies will be begun to be made. Bessy will have 

 EdwKncf M ^Day-the Studdys* «* a Nephew Studdy and other PeSa.TLS 

 left hv S?. i T> '■ !u anV1 " fam ^ haVe had t0 P ft y some duty on Breadsal Lodge t, 

 left by Sir F. Darwin to his unmarried daughters. He died 40 years ago, and Aunt Darwin 



dW y toUi a e g p^ a ers rttttT^f*** ^ "* ^^ ^ should ^ as Annie S^k 

 did, to the Papers. \\ ith much love, yours most affectionately, Emma Galton. 



Letters to IT. F. R. Weldon. 



12, Rutland Gate, S.W. November 12, 1903. 

 My dbab Wkldos, C. Herbst's book fills me with shame at my ignorance-When will 

 yon wake up or another Darwin arise, to consolidate and co-ordinate the mass of scattered 



^rb^^eef tt a f CC t Um "- ated ° t 'lYr 8 - \ haVe d,PPed ^P int ° the book f a S t C :ev e ei e a1 

 m sterinc" t . T t0 ° W ™?* "" creatures s P°ken about to have any hope of 

 mastering it. Besides, as you say, I read German with difficulty, and don't like it or take 



cure^urnTet 7 "^ bl ". e .. shad °7 " n a W £ te . road > ( 2 ) Prevention of bronchitis better than 

 cure, (3) purple irises in Sicily while Piccadilly is in mud slush-have been so "fetching" that 



tha„ V W 5 *T!*& my ? lf Wit1 ' 8 fulei «" BradshaW and al " linking ™«ch more definite 

 :^ a If 6 D ,r mber ** * S °' * W ° uid P'' 0l ' a % be > *S direct to Genoa- hen 



first fin, ,itt f^i™?"^ a d u y ° r , tW ° at Na P leS ' and then to cross to ^lermo the 

 n st fine night I am trying to find out the relative merits of the Palermo Hotels, and whether 

 the Igea is really good or only costly and out of the way. Also I heard of a new hotel at Porto 

 I'.no (near Rapallo), said to be suitable for a week's stay, to rest and to acclimafee I Zlst 

 treat myself as somewhat of an invalid. u acclimatise, l must 



'fifties S?K dCath ma T e t ,ne r ,T , Sad - He W a " ° ld Mend > back to th « 'forties or early 

 I don't want to H ^ J *T feW left T D ° f his generation, far fewer of my own. Ye^ 



LS a^iCBrfe^t*!^- in a gouty and p — ic *~ * 



Very sincerely yours, Fbancis Galton. 

 Hotel Thinaciua, Messina. March 12, 1904. 

 En route to Lipari— don't address as above. 

 I'kak \\ kldoh, Your interesting letter greeted me here on arrival, after a glorious week 

 a 8, racuse and previously at Cirgenti. You are by far too kindly a crit c. The Lt sTteT u' ( 

 of the intended circular are rather illogically arranged and will be altered. You shou Id £' ■ 

 a cuios, y, the corrections made by P. Howard Collins who did so much for Herbert Spence 

 and has been very helpful often to ,„e. He is ruthless, and has (I hear) scored the proof all 

 over as is his wont. Some of his revisions are however always valuable P 



About the cancer cells-Have not any full series of experiments yet been made on trans 

 itl J ° Va "? al T StageS ° f thdr development? It ought to be done^oth in warn and cold 

 blooded annuals. Immature spawn in frogs and fish. The separated contents of an ovaT each 

 grafted into some different part of the body of a mouse, guinea-pig, fowl (not neXtiL the 



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