Sent from Karl Pearson
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I am of course sorry about what you have done about the mice. It is impossible that any work with which I am connected should not be dealt with in an improper manner by Bateson, and his pupils feelings appear to run so high, that a brother of Miss Durham two or three years ago wrote threatening me almost with personal violence. Bateson himself wrote me the most disgraceful letter that I ever had from any living man, asking me to disent[?] my most intimate friend, and a man who had been Bateson’s own close personal friend. I do not wish to trouble you with personal matters. When this albinism paper is published, what line you may take will not be for me to express an opinion about. All I ask is that anything with regards to it should not go to Bateson or his pupils. Usher’s & your attention to the mice with partial pigmentation although the full discussion of them belonged to a paper in preparation for the late W.F.R. Weldon, because it seemed to touch our present topic, but the partial pigmentation of albinotic eyes was found out a number of years ago, when Bateson was vehemently asserting that mice had “pink” or “black” eyes & would allow no intermediate class. The discovery which was made in the Oxford experiments has gone round to Bateson & as a result of it, we shall probably see it described as due to him or his school.

I therefore much respect any discussion of the matter, because it does not concern me only, but knowledge I derived from the observations of a dead friend.

I am, yours sincerely,

Karl Pearson.’