K. Pearson to M.S. Pearson, 7th April 1919.- External URL
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Sent From (Definite): Karl PearsonSent To (Definite): Maria Sharpe PearsonDate: 7 Apr 1919
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Sent fromKarl Pearson
7 Apr 1919
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‘My dearest Wife,
All well here & I wish you were with us, the weather is so perfect. I was disturbed to hear this morning of further worm from I have no doubt the white puppy. I have at the same time a card from Miss Murrell that she will take the puppies & hopes for some one going through from Liverpool Street to the Rookery, Earls Soham. nr Franlingham on Thursday. I have written to her & to Muss Jones & asked her to write directly as to times etc. to the latter. But the first thing is to get the puppy basket - the market basket with handle – up to Well Road. I wonder if Helga could get it from College tomorrow Tuesday. Potter the beadle at the Engineering entrance, would let her into the Laboratory & it is on top of the small bookcase on left side of passage as you enter from engineering end, just inside door. I have asked Miss Jones if possible to see about getting the puppies to Liverpool Street. It would be such a relief to you to be free of them, that I hope it may come off. Her address is 5 Grafton Mansions, Duke Street. W.C.1. Of course I don’t know whether it is possible for her to help, but I know you would be glad to get them off. I shall write to Miss M. about the worms. I was rather distressed yesterday. There was a very big funeral here, many motors from London, & I asked casually whom it might be. It was Sir James Mackenzie Davidson, whom I think you have heard me talk about. He has been most kind in doing me of[f?] expense X-ray work for my Laboratory & he was a man full of suggestion & inspiration, the inventor of the X ray stereoscopic method & microphone probe for eye & wound work. One of the really big men all round. I only saw him about two years ago as to some femur X-ray work. He had apparently often been in Coldharbour in his youth and last time he was here with Sir William Ramsay. He had some link with Dr Ferdinand & the former owner of Dr F’s cottage, but I do not know the exact nature of it. He had left an expression of his wish to be buried here. I suppose he died from cancer as a result of X ray work. I should have gone to the funeral had I known in time& had any black coat here.’
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Sent toMaria Sharpe Pearson
7 Apr 1919
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‘My dearest Wife,
All well here & I wish you were with us, the weather is so perfect. I was disturbed to hear this morning of further worm from I have no doubt the white puppy. I have at the same time a card from Miss Murrell that she will take the puppies & hopes for some one going through from Liverpool Street to the Rookery, Earls Soham. nr Franlingham on Thursday. I have written to her & to Muss Jones & asked her to write directly as to times etc. to the latter. But the first thing is to get the puppy basket - the market basket with handle – up to Well Road. I wonder if Helga could get it from College tomorrow Tuesday. Potter the beadle at the Engineering entrance, would let her into the Laboratory & it is on top of the small bookcase on left side of passage as you enter from engineering end, just inside door. I have asked Miss Jones if possible to see about getting the puppies to Liverpool Street. It would be such a relief to you to be free of them, that I hope it may come off. Her address is 5 Grafton Mansions, Duke Street. W.C.1. Of course I don’t know whether it is possible for her to help, but I know you would be glad to get them off. I shall write to Miss M. about the worms. I was rather distressed yesterday. There was a very big funeral here, many motors from London, & I asked casually whom it might be. It was Sir James Mackenzie Davidson, whom I think you have heard me talk about. He has been most kind in doing me of[f?] expense X-ray work for my Laboratory & he was a man full of suggestion & inspiration, the inventor of the X ray stereoscopic method & microphone probe for eye & wound work. One of the really big men all round. I only saw him about two years ago as to some femur X-ray work. He had apparently often been in Coldharbour in his youth and last time he was here with Sir William Ramsay. He had some link with Dr Ferdinand & the former owner of Dr F’s cottage, but I do not know the exact nature of it. He had left an expression of his wish to be buried here. I suppose he died from cancer as a result of X ray work. I should have gone to the funeral had I known in time& had any black coat here.’
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