K. Pearson to M.S. Pearson, 21st Dec. 1924.- Correspondence Details
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Sent From (Definite): Karl PearsonSent To (Definite): Maria Sharpe PearsonDate: 21 Dec 1924
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Holder (Definite): University College London: Special Collections
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Sent fromKarl Pearson
21 Dec 1924
Description:‘... I was unnaturally tired yesterday, partly by clearing up my room at College and partly by the dogs there, as I took all the ladies out twice. Miss Child, having had come down to help with letters & dispatches of new publications. She is always good in that way & she is going on Monday to see to letters. A good night makes me feel a newer man today. I am conscious, however, of neglecting my obvious duty in dissecting the bitches just now, especially Topsy. The difficulty of old age, is that it makes one so terribly dependent on others, when one is really needed oneself. Both Stone[?] and Nichols are really keen on their work, but they do not see just what is needful in a canine crisis, and although they see more of the dogs than I do, the latter [i.e. the dogs] do not somehow recognise in them the “master’s voice.” I was too kind to M[?]ing Eld; I felt he might, good boy as he is be more than I could manage, but if Sigrid or Egon would bring him, it would do him good & relieve the congestion in the Animal House. I can manage him here quite well.’
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Sent toMaria Sharpe Pearson
21 Dec 1924
Description:‘... I was unnaturally tired yesterday, partly by clearing up my room at College and partly by the dogs there, as I took all the ladies out twice. Miss Child, having had come down to help with letters & dispatches of new publications. She is always good in that way & she is going on Monday to see to letters. A good night makes me feel a newer man today. I am conscious, however, of neglecting my obvious duty in dissecting the bitches just now, especially Topsy. The difficulty of old age, is that it makes one so terribly dependent on others, when one is really needed oneself. Both Stone[?] and Nichols are really keen on their work, but they do not see just what is needful in a canine crisis, and although they see more of the dogs than I do, the latter [i.e. the dogs] do not somehow recognise in them the “master’s voice.” I was too kind to M[?]ing Eld; I felt he might, good boy as he is be more than I could manage, but if Sigrid or Egon would bring him, it would do him good & relieve the congestion in the Animal House. I can manage him here quite well.’
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CitesTopsy (dog)
Description:'I am conscious... of neglecting my obvious duty in dissecting the bitches just now, especially Topsy. The difficulty of old age, is that it makes one so terribly dependent on others, when one is really needed oneself.'
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Related toTemporary Animal House of the Galton Laboratory, University College London.
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'The difficulty of old age, is that it makes one so terribly dependent on others, when one is really needed oneself. Both Stone[?] and Nichols are really keen on their work, but they do not see just what is needful in a canine crisis, and although they see more of the dogs than I do, the latter [i.e. the dogs] do not somehow recognise in them the “master’s voice.” I was too kind to M[?]ing Eld; I felt he might, good boy as he is be more than I could manage, but if Sigrid or Egon would bring him, it would do him good & relieve the congestion in the Animal House. I can manage him here quite well.’
