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Sent From (Definite): Edward NettleshipSent To (Definite): Karl PearsonDate: 7 Nov 1905
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Sent fromEdward Nettleship
7 Nov 1905
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‘Dear Professor Pearson,
Thank you for the returned pedigree; I will make it complete as may be and send it back when I can.
About the suggested schedule for English doctors, I cannot have expressed myself clearly. I have no doubt that a good deal of information from British Eye Surgeons and other medical men can be got. Frankly I was rather afraid that you might propose too elaborate a schedule such as would tend to defeat its own object. I should suggest a circular letter explaining that you are collecting information on Albinism in relation to heredity & to differing degrees of Albinism etc. & simply asking for any particulars of cases that can be supplied.
I think you would then have to write again, & perhaps again, with detailed questions to any who sent what looked like hopeful cases. It might be useful to associate your 3 London doctors’ names with your own in the first circular – this is only a suggestion. I mean such as Jonathan Hutchinson if he would a stainer[?], or you cd. have mine if you like.
I shd. not limit the enquiry to Ophthalmic men only, & one use of having some other signatories than yourself wd. be to help in selecting names.
I feel sure you will get more information from men to whom the albinos for their sight, not necessarily pure Ophthalmic Surgeons, than from Dermatologists.
The mothers of an albino child bring the child because it sees badly & cannot bear the light; not because it has white hair!
Yours sincerely,
E. Nettleship.
8th. But the Dermatologists are the only people who can settle the differential diagnosis between Leucoderma & piebald albinism, - if the latter really exists in man. This is a vital point.
The name of Dr. J.F. Payne, 78, Wimpole St., occurs to me as likely to be willing to help you at any rate with this literature. A rather senior very learned & cultivated Physician who has worked a great deal at Skin Diseases; mention my name if you like.
E.N.’
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Sent toKarl Pearson
7 Nov 1905
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‘Dear Professor Pearson,
Thank you for the returned pedigree; I will make it complete as may be and send it back when I can.
About the suggested schedule for English doctors, I cannot have expressed myself clearly. I have no doubt that a good deal of information from British Eye Surgeons and other medical men can be got. Frankly I was rather afraid that you might propose too elaborate a schedule such as would tend to defeat its own object. I should suggest a circular letter explaining that you are collecting information on Albinism in relation to heredity & to differing degrees of Albinism etc. & simply asking for any particulars of cases that can be supplied.
I think you would then have to write again, & perhaps again, with detailed questions to any who sent what looked like hopeful cases. It might be useful to associate your 3 London doctors’ names with your own in the first circular – this is only a suggestion. I mean such as Jonathan Hutchinson if he would a stainer[?], or you cd. have mine if you like.
I shd. not limit the enquiry to Ophthalmic men only, & one use of having some other signatories than yourself wd. be to help in selecting names.
I feel sure you will get more information from men to whom the albinos for their sight, not necessarily pure Ophthalmic Surgeons, than from Dermatologists.
The mothers of an albino child bring the child because it sees badly & cannot bear the light; not because it has white hair!
Yours sincerely,
E. Nettleship.
8th. But the Dermatologists are the only people who can settle the differential diagnosis between Leucoderma & piebald albinism, - if the latter really exists in man. This is a vital point.
The name of Dr. J.F. Payne, 78, Wimpole St., occurs to me as likely to be willing to help you at any rate with this literature. A rather senior very learned & cultivated Physician who has worked a great deal at Skin Diseases; mention my name if you like.
E.N.’
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