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even fuller than No. 3 is of old associations on account of my Mother. There has been difficulty 

 in dealing with the accumulation of dear Emma's things, but Edward tells me that all her 

 books were most methodically kept, all bills paid up to almost the last, and everything was so 

 neatly stored. I called on Temple and saw the other two maids there; she was very lachrymose, 

 then cheered up, then, when I went away, became all tears again. As to you, so to me, she 

 bitterly bemoaned her sudden isolation. Anyhow she. has a charming house with a little grass 

 plot and summer-house behind and a narrow plot in front. It is close to Bertie Terrace, on the 

 same side of the main road, and nearly opposite to, but short of, the Post Office. I go again on 

 Monday for the greater part of the day to Bessy, and hope to find Eva there. She is, or was, 



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not sure whether she could leave London by Saturday morning. I had not time on Wednesday 

 last to go to the cemetery. We lunched to-day at Wroxall Abbey, with Edward's brother-in-law. 

 All so hospitable and family-like. I called on Grace Moilliet, but she was out. Gussy* is at 

 Hiinbleton with Lady Galton f. Yesterday I went to Wootton Wawen Church where Darwin 

 is buried and Maryj and Mrs Phillips and others. I liked all the memorials much, Darwin's 

 included, which had been hardly criticised, but not deservedly, as I thought. 



I trust, dear Milly, that your eyes are really mending. That horrid pamphlet tried them, 

 I know. I wish I had never shown it you. It is so pleasant now to realise your surroundings 

 and to think of you amidst them. It was a very delightful visit indeed to me and to Eva. 

 Grimspound was grand and the moor most striking and beautiful in many ways, and the air 

 felt so healthful. Give my best love to Amy. Also to the Captain and his Wife§. We expect 

 to lie back for good early in October. Ever affectionately, Francis Galton. 



42, Rutland Gate, S.W. October 8, 1901. 



Deakkst Milly, I am to blame for letting the time slip by without writing. All is well 

 here, but 1 have been full of my "Eugenic" plans, so full that I have not even written up my 

 little pocket journal for a week. I stayed last Sunday with Lady Welby at Harrow, who is a 

 most zealous friend, and have consulted with Sidney Lee, the Editor of the Dictionary of 

 National Biography, with Barron, the Editor of the Ancestor, with Professor Weldon, with 

 Branford, the Secretary of the Sociological and with Lionel Robinson, a general litterateur, and 

 i less than seven different ways of making the first effort, between which a wise choice has to 

 be made. Every one of them seems hopeful at present. The iron is kept red hot on the anvil, 

 and I am simply continuing to write concise family biographies, like that of the Stracheys 

 which you saw (No, you didn't, it wasn't ready then). They too are giving me friendly help, 

 and writing out ideas and getting them into shape. I cherish every day before winter, with its 

 too faithful bronchitis, sets in. Lucy Wheler is staying a week with us, and is massaged every 

 morning. She and Eva are quite happy, and shop, and see art things together. Bessy seems 

 to be going on very well and will have all the changes of furniture made while she keeps on at 

 No. 5, No. •'! will .soon be, perhaps is, advertised to be sold. How quickly events move. I think 

 I must have told you of my stay at Claverdon and of the tree thinning. It was all very pleasant 

 there, where also events are moving quickly. I am curious about the newly discovered drive 



* Augusta B. Stewart, second wife of Herman Ernest Galton: see our Vol. I, Pedigree 

 Plate A. 



t Marianne Nicholson, Sir Douglas Galton's wife. 



J Mary Phillips, wife of Darwin Galton. § Captain Guy Lethbridge. 



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