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Galton, Francis (5)

File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and the eugenics scholar Francis Galton. Also includes a copy of Francis' "Index to Achievements of Near Kinsfolk of some of the Fellows of the Royal Society, 1904".

Bradley, F. H. (Francis Herbert?)

File consists of folder of correspondence. Petrilli transcribed and published all but a "few brief notes." The following letters have been transcribed and published in Petrilli’s Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement:
VW to FHB 17 January 1887
FHB to VW 8 February 1887
VW to FHB 11 February 1887
FHB to VW 23 February 1887
FHB to VW 22 May 1887
VW to FHB 8 November 1894
VW to FHB [1894]
FHB to VW 11 November 1894
VW to FHB 15 November 1894
FHB to VW 16 November 1894
VW to FHB 26 May 1903.
See: Susan Petrilli, Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. 2009, pp. 48-55.

Lang, Andrew

File consists of original, typed transcriptions and extracts of correspondence between Andrew Lang and Welby. Includes some draft letters. Topics include: Lang's attack of a Miss Wilkins in the publication "Illustration", origins of ghosts in primitive societies, early religions, Welby's correspondence with Dr. Tylor, Prof. Boys, a Dr. "Wllr" and Prof. L.M.; meetings with Max Muller and Prof. Michel Breal; discussion of "animal Land", eugenics and the Sociological Society. Lang writes from Ardtornish, Movern, Fort William, Corby Castle in Carlisle, Edinburgh and St. Andrew's.

MacDonald, William

File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and William MacDonald, regarding their collaboration (Macdonald was contracted to assist Welby as an editor of her writing), the purchase of a Remington typewriter, their correspondence with Professor Geddes, gifts of flowers, visits to London, MacDonald's introduction to Mr. McGeegan and other aspects of their work together. Macdonald writes from 18 Essendine Road, and Elgin Avenue West.

MacDonald, William

File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and MacDonald, primarily related to their collaboration, but topics also include: Welby's dog Tobey, MacDonald's visits to Harrow, a Miss Precocitz (?), MacDonald's review of Geddes book, Louise Michel, the role of "race-mothers", MacDonald's efforts to buy a house in the country, as well as a copy of a letter written to MacDonald to Mr. Branford seeking to secure a salary for his work as Welby's formal collaborator, and his work for Welby on alternate weeks, as well as "clearing up some difficulties at the British Museum."

Waller, Dr and Mrs Augustus D.

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed correspondence, as well as transcribed excerpts, between Welby and Dr. Augustus Waller and his wife Alice M. Waller. Topics include: "sense"; theology and spiritual life; the division between physics and metaphysics; discipline of physiology; the physical basis of dream; theories of Victor Horsley, Ziehen, Wundt, Weissmann and Haeckel; writings of Mr. Wallace, Mr. Crookes and Mr. Galton; ex-citation the call from without; Quakerism; agnosticism; religion and science; protoplasm and excitability; Welby's suggestion Waller speak to Professor Karl Pearson; Waller's opinions of Welby's neice who also persues physiological studies;. Also includes a handwritten outline of a work focused on sense, meaning and significance, as well as typed and handwritten notes on Waller's writing, including two copies of 10 page typed response to Wall'ers paper on Analogy between Reflex in Logical Procecnes. Includes a handwritten summary of the nature of their correspondence. The Wallers write from: Weston Lodge 16 Grove End Road, N.W., Dixcart's Hotel, Lark, Channel Islands, Marlston House, Newbury, and the Physiological Laboratory at the University of London. It appears that Welby visited them sometime in 1889, again in July 1892. The Wallers visited Denton in 1892.

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