Safe Passage Agreement for Francis Galton

Document agreeing to grant Francis Galton safe passage through Namaqua, Damaraland and elsewhere, signed by Sir Henry Wakelyn Smith, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Cape of Good Hope, and John Montagu, Colonial Secretary of the Cape Colony. The text appears in English, Dutch and Portugese.

The document is sealed in red wax at the bottom edge, and accompanied by a larger wax seal kept in a separate metal enclosure. [According to Nicholas Gillham this larger seal was taken from the royal mandate declaring Galton a Lieutenant-Governor of the colony; see Nicholas Gillham A Life of Sir Francis Galton, p.65 (New York: Oxford University Press; 2001).]

31 Jul 1850

1 folio plus 1 seal in tin box

See GALTON/1/3/2/4 copy letter dated 5th August 1850 addressed "My dear Darwin" for a description of the document and attached seal.

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.