GALTON PAPERS
PAPERS RELATING TO THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF SIR FRANCIS GALTON AND HIS FAMILY (1612-1926)
Family histo y .and correspondence
(Arranged in alphabetical order of the name of the member of the family and in chronological order under each name)
1. A book by David Barclay describing the emancipa- 1811 tion of the slaves of Unity Valley Pen in Jamaica
2. Two letters from Charles Booth aboutt his aunt 1874 [Adele Booth]
Charles Robert DARWIN (1809-1882)
3. A copy of the Hornet of March 22 containing a 1871 cartoon of Charles Darwin
4. Printed copy of the Cambridge University Public 1877 Orator's speech for the presentation of the degree of Doctor of Laws to Charles Darwin
5. Printed notice for Charles Darwin's funeral at 1882 Westminster Abbey
6. Scrapbook off newspaper cuttings about Charles post 1882 Darwin collected by his butler W.Jackson
7. Scrapbook of Darwiniana collected by Mr Wesley 1802-92 including some damaged notes made on the Beagle and a letter from Charles Darwin to A.R.Wallace
8. Charles Darwin's copy of A history of England 1821 Vol.1
9. Four photographs of Charles Darwin, one of his 1841-80 study at Down and a daguerrotype of him with his son William Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus DARWIN (1731-1802)
10. MSS by Erasmus Darwin on canals entitled Part [c 1760] 1st. A plan of a navigable canal intended for a communication between ye ports of Hull and Liverpool (9 ff) Part ye second. General advantages of inland navigation (14 ff) Part the third. Advantages of the designed canal (in a notebook of 19 ff), 1 f of notes
11. Notebook containing Erasmus Darwin's MS of n.d. The temple of nature - a poem in five cantos
