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Sent From (Definite): Edward NettleshipSent To (Definite): Karl PearsonDate: 8 Mar 1910
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Sent fromEdward Nettleship
8 Mar 1910
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‘My dear Pearson,
Your’s of 7th;- Tong is aggravating but must be taken as she is.
She shall be met at Haslemere on Friday (11th) at 1.20.
I fear it will most likely have to be Jack again. There is however just a chance that I may get her put to an almost quite black Pekingese belonging to a lady at Churst[?]; sometime also she said I might try him & I am writing to her now. But she may have changed her mind, or be away or something; also the dog is “lame” (not “paralysed”) in his hips & that might prevent achievement.
Yours of 5th – I am extremely glad that we are agreed as to the responsibility for each section or chapter being definitely stated; that is really all I cared about when I wrote last. I was afraid that as you have announced the memoir as by all 3 of us your loyalty wd. carry you further & that I, e.g. might find myself congratulated or criticised, or what not, by an American or a German – who knew my name but not my limitations – upon my joint authorship of the Geography or History, or ven of the Statistics! – Now I shall be quite happy.
As a counsel of perfection I think it wd. really be the right thing to give the whole authorship to you...
I was quite intending to mate Jack & Jill again, granted I am able to go on; & also to mate some of Jack & Jill’s children. Unluckily of their current litter marked a.b.c.d.e. on pedigree c & d are both ♂’s, a. ♀ and e ♂ are dead (e died on 5th); so the only cross within that litter will be b x c, or b x d.
I have the skin & eyes of e.
I will send presently some hair of this litter, & have written to several people for hairs from coloured Pekingese & will send what I can.
Yrs very sincerely,
E. Nettleship
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Sent toKarl Pearson
8 Mar 1910
Description:
‘My dear Pearson,
Your’s of 7th;- Tong is aggravating but must be taken as she is.
She shall be met at Haslemere on Friday (11th) at 1.20.
I fear it will most likely have to be Jack again. There is however just a chance that I may get her put to an almost quite black Pekingese belonging to a lady at Churst[?]; sometime also she said I might try him & I am writing to her now. But she may have changed her mind, or be away or something; also the dog is “lame” (not “paralysed”) in his hips & that might prevent achievement.
Yours of 5th – I am extremely glad that we are agreed as to the responsibility for each section or chapter being definitely stated; that is really all I cared about when I wrote last. I was afraid that as you have announced the memoir as by all 3 of us your loyalty wd. carry you further & that I, e.g. might find myself congratulated or criticised, or what not, by an American or a German – who knew my name but not my limitations – upon my joint authorship of the Geography or History, or ven of the Statistics! – Now I shall be quite happy.
As a counsel of perfection I think it wd. really be the right thing to give the whole authorship to you...
I was quite intending to mate Jack & Jill again, granted I am able to go on; & also to mate some of Jack & Jill’s children. Unluckily of their current litter marked a.b.c.d.e. on pedigree c & d are both ♂’s, a. ♀ and e ♂ are dead (e died on 5th); so the only cross within that litter will be b x c, or b x d.
I have the skin & eyes of e.
I will send presently some hair of this litter, & have written to several people for hairs from coloured Pekingese & will send what I can.
Yrs very sincerely,
E. Nettleship
...’
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