Reynolds, H

Letters from H Reynolds to Galton regarding composite photographs made from casts at the British Museum and from portrait photographs of individuals. The following letters have enclosures:

Letter dated 11 November 1878 includes a plan of a photographic shed.

Letter dated 27 May 1878 includes five composite portraits of men, enclosed in part of a weather chart.

Letter dated 30 July 1878 includes two photographs of men and one photograph of a coin.

Letter dated 19 August 1878 includes a photograph of two busts of Greek/Roman women.

Letter dated 2 February 1880 includes fifteen portrait photographs of men, women and children.

Letter dated 9 March 1880 includes three portrait photographs of men. Letter dated 24 April [no year] includes two printed sets of composite photographs that were used by Galton in various publications (composites of men, including criminals, and composites of Greek/Roman women)

Also includes eleven portrait photographs in packaging marked "Photographs from the letter: Reynolds, 1880, Feb 18.", but no letter with this date was found when cataloguing.

1877-1880

29 letters plus 1 postcard, 1 drawing, 39 photographs and 3 envelopes

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.

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

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.