Biographical Notes and Newspaper Clippings

Bundle of items found loose inside the front cover of Galton Book Volume I:

Marriage certificate of Samuel Galton and Lucy Barclay, 07 October 1777; 1 ff.

Biographical notes by Francis Galton, covering the years 1852-1853; 2 ff.

Transcribed extracts from Samuel Tertius Galton's diary for 1839; 2 ff.

Extract from Black's Guide regarding the Wrights of Derby; 1 ff.

Typescript note regarding Robert Barclay of Urie, attached to a biography of Captain Barclay of Ury published in Bailey's Magazine; 2 ff.

Typescript copy of the Grant of Arms to John Howard Galton; 2ff.

Letter addressed to Dr Dowson, regarding a lecture he gave on the life of Erasmus Darwin; 26 February 1871, 2 ff.

Newspaper clippings, featuring an obituary of Sir Horace Darwin, an obituary of Sir Francis Darwin, and an article concerning Duddeston house; 3 ff.

1777

15 folios

Found loose inside the front cover of GALTON/1/1/9/1/1.

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.