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Letter from photographer Herbert Spencer inviting Galton to a picnic.

Correspondence

Letterbooks

Letters of Notable Victorians

Butler, Harold Edgeworth

Back, Sir George

Buys Ballot, Christophorus Henricus Diedericus

Baker, Sir Samuel White

Baring, William Bingham, 2nd Baron Ashburton

Burton, Captain Sir Richard Francis

de Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame

Cayley, Arthur

Barth, Heinrich

Burgoyne, Field Marshal Sir John Fox

Blakesley, Rev. Joseph Williams

Clark, William George

Cobbe, Frances Power

Collinson, Sir Richard

Conway, Moncure Daniel

Lindsay, Alexander William Crawford, 25th Earl of Crawford

Faulds, Henry

Fingerprint Form

Darwin, Charles Robert

Peck, C E [pp Anthropological Institute]

Invitation to the Funeral of Charles Darwin

FitzRoy, Vice-Admiral Sir Robert

Farrar, Frederick William

Everest, Sir George

Frere, Sir Henry Bartle Edward

Tracing of the Nile

Froude, James Anthony

Galton, Sir Francis

Gérard, Cécile Jules Basile

Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey

Gérard, Cécile Jules Basile to Sir Roderick Murchison

Forster, John

Goschen, George, 1st Viscount Goschen

Grant, James Augustus

Grove, Sir William Robert

Grove, Sir George

Herschel, Alexander Stewart

Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton

Huggins, Sir William

Hughes, Thomas

Huxley, Thomas Henry

Jomard, Edme François

Johnston, Sir Henry Hamilton

Kingsley, Charles

Kirk, Sir John

Körösi, Joseph

Layard, Sir Austen Henry

Lawrence, John Laird Mair, 1st Baron Lawrence

Livingstone, David

Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman

Lubbock, Sir John, 1st Baron Avebury

Lushington, Stephen

Lyell, Sir Charles

Mackenzie, Charles Frederick Frazier

Milnes, Richard Monckton, 1st Baron Houghton

Munro, Hugh Andrew Johnstone

Morley, John, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Northcote, Stafford Henry, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh

Nightingale, Florence

Oliphant, Laurence

Spencer, Herbert

Spottiswoode, William

Stanley, Edward Henry, 15th Earl of Derby

Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, 1st Baronet

Sturt, Charles

Taylor, Tom

Tinter, W R?

Todhunter, Isaac

Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett

Tyndall, John

Wade, Sir Thomas Francis

Wallace, Alfred Russel

Young, Allan

Yule, Sir Henry

Airy, Sir George Biddell

Barclay Allardice, Robert, 6th Laird of Ury [Captain Barclay]

Armstrong, Sir William George, 1st Baron Armstrong

Babbage, Charles

Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins

Buxton, Charles

Cooke, Edward William

Darwin, Erasmus

Wedgwood, Josiah

Dieken, Baron de

Holl, Francis Montague

Fayrer, Sir Joseph, 1st Baronet

Forbes, Edward

Jevons, William Stanley

Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner

Partridge, Richard

Osborn, Sherard

Parker, H

Phillips, John

Ramsay, Andrew

Strutt, John William, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

Sabine, Sir Edward

Sharpey, William

Simon, Sir John

Smith, Sir Henry George Wakelyn, 1st Baronet of Aliwal

Speke, John Hanning

Gluesten, I J

Unknown

Venn, John Archibald

Darwin, Sir George Howard

Galton, Samuel Tertius

Ellis, Henry Havelock

Frazer, Sir James George

Thompson, Sir Henry

Spencer, Herbert

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