Penrose, L S to John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

Correpsondence between J B S Haldane, Professor of Biometry at UCL, and L S Penrose, plus typescripts and working papers. Includes the following:

Copy of a letter from Haldane regarding the Galton Chair sent to L S Penrose in Canada via his brother, artist Roland Algernon Penrose. Includes a copy of a covering letter from Haldane to Roland Penrose, and a letter from Roland Penrose to Haldane in response.

Letters between Haldane and Penrose regarding Penrose's candidature for the Galton Chair, the future direction of Annals of Eugenics if Penrose were to be appointed, and Penrose's research into sex-linkage and the age of onset in mental health disorders.

Typescript copy of "Age of Onset and Sex in Familial Mental Illness" by L S Penrose, and copy of "Filial and Fraternal Correlations in Successive Generations" by R Stanton.

Typescript copy of "Effects of Assortative Mating on Filial and Fraternal Correlations" by L S Penrose

Correspondence between Haldane and Penrose regarding the papers mentioned above

Unpublished typescript titled "Psychotic Profiles and Sex Profiles shown by a Test Battery" by L S Penrose

Letter from Penrose to Haldane regarding the possibility of giving lectures to medical students and further cooperation with University College Hospital, and regarding the healthy birth of Penrose's daughter, Shirley.

Notes by Penrose on characteristics of unaffected relatives of people with Down's syndrome

Further correspondence between Haldane and Penrose regarding arrangements for Penrose and his family to travel from Canada to Britain, and practical arrangements for the new UCL department.

Penrose's reports on the Galton Laboratory for the 1945-1946 and 1949-1950 academic years

Handwritten paper titled "Possible Causes of Genetic Polymorphism" by J B S Haldane and a letter from Penrose with comments

137 folios

Please note that this file contains two letters that are closed until 01/01/2034 for data protection reasons. These have been removed and stored in a separate folder.

Jun 1943-May 1950

35 letters plus 11 enclosures

Arranged in chronological order.

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.