E. Nettleship to K. Pearson, 1st June 1911.- External URL
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Sent From (Definite): Edward NettleshipSent To (Definite): Karl PearsonDate: 1 Jun 1911
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Sent fromEdward Nettleship
1 Jun 1911
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‘My dear Pearson,
I am very glad your patience was rewarded. Jack got back all right & is now engaged in trying to persuade his 2nd wife, Jill, (yours being the 1st!), but she is not ready yet.
He is I believe generally somewhat off his feed on these occasions excitement & diversion of energy I suppose. I shall of course not let this little job cost you anything: I was very glad to be able to do it & we were all rather more peaceful for those few days without Jack’s sexuality demanding repression &c.
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[re: Coats’ studies of human eyes, personal matters]
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I am going today to hear Leonard Darwin as new Presdt of the Eugenics Educ. Soc.ty – We have a little branch here, but unless it does better in the future than the past it will perish &, I think, deserve to. Nevertheless I believe there is room for such a course of elementary teaching of the fundamentals as would be useful, i.e. as would avoid the pitfall of making the people think they now knew all about it & yet give them something sound on wh. to build further if they, or any of them, wanted.
But it wd. need a teacher or lecturer, or whatever the [illeg.] might be, who could put high technicalities in almost untechnical words, - a very strictly limited minimum of such at most -; & such people are I suppose very scarce.
However this is all rather screed & hardly interesting to you.
Yrs very sincerely,
E. Nettleship.’
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Sent toKarl Pearson
1 Jun 1911
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‘My dear Pearson,
I am very glad your patience was rewarded. Jack got back all right & is now engaged in trying to persuade his 2nd wife, Jill, (yours being the 1st!), but she is not ready yet.
He is I believe generally somewhat off his feed on these occasions excitement & diversion of energy I suppose. I shall of course not let this little job cost you anything: I was very glad to be able to do it & we were all rather more peaceful for those few days without Jack’s sexuality demanding repression &c.
...’
[re: Coats’ studies of human eyes, personal matters]
‘...
I am going today to hear Leonard Darwin as new Presdt of the Eugenics Educ. Soc.ty – We have a little branch here, but unless it does better in the future than the past it will perish &, I think, deserve to. Nevertheless I believe there is room for such a course of elementary teaching of the fundamentals as would be useful, i.e. as would avoid the pitfall of making the people think they now knew all about it & yet give them something sound on wh. to build further if they, or any of them, wanted.
But it wd. need a teacher or lecturer, or whatever the [illeg.] might be, who could put high technicalities in almost untechnical words, - a very strictly limited minimum of such at most -; & such people are I suppose very scarce.
However this is all rather screed & hardly interesting to you.
Yrs very sincerely,
E. Nettleship.’
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