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Lankester, E. Ray

File consists of handwritten, transcripts and extracts of correspondence between E. Ray Lankester and Welby. Topics include: visual judgment, geocentricism, Welby's hope that F. Galton will look at piece of writing, "Mental Biology" that she sends to Lankester; reading Pinet and Féré; discussion of a scientific controversy between Poulton and Romanes and Lankester and the Duke of Argyll (regarding Darwin's theory); Lady Scarborough's invitation to Lankester, Lankester's travels in Europe; invitation from Welby to visit her at Lumley; Welby's efforts to befriend Prof. Oliver Lodge, Mr. Muybridge's exhibition of cave paintings; connecting with A.P. Laurei a chemist and technical instructor at the People's Palace; a reoccuring interest in a local "water-finder" including a report from Sir William Welby-Gregory on water-finding at Denton; Welby's report to Lankester in 1889 that an article in the Spectator reported that "somebody nearby has been tested by so-called experiments, as supposed to have 'the Power'"; Welby responding to paper sent by Lankester; Mr. Wallace's views regarding the manifestations of spiritualists; Welby's concerns about the "morbid developments of "spiritism""; Mr. Galton's twins; Mr. Meyers and Dr. H.J. ; Dr. Benjamin Richardson's lectures on "mental contageon"; Lankester's visit to Denton in April 1892; introduction of Scott and Lady Cecilia Montagu to their circle; Montagu's photographs of visiting party at Denton; Welby's anonymous poem published in "Mind" around May 1902; Lankester's critique of Mr. Bernard; Mr. Galton's work on eugenics; the Sociological Society; gifts of books from Welby for Lankester to give away to students; Prof. Metchnikoff; "D.W. Geoffrey Smiths' crucially important research on sex in crustacea"; hermaphodism in nature; health, nervousness and being overworked. Lankester writes from 11 Wellington Mansions and the Savil Club at 107 Piccadilly, grand Hotel Royal in San Remo, Italy, 29 Thurloe Place, 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.

Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed letters between Welby and Miss F. Julia Wedgwood. Also included typed excerpts and letter drafts. Topics include: the illness and death of Wedgwood's mother and the sudden blindness of her father; the writings of Huxley, Nasmyth, Coleridge, and Darwin; Wedgwood responding to Welby's "Appeal"; concept of Redemption; the nature of evil; Wedgwood's research on the Talmud; Welby's curiosity about Wedgwood's correspondence with Miss C. Stephen regarding "The Moral Ideal"; gifts of flowers; Welby's aversion to the term "supernatural;" Wedgwood's reflections on her uncle's work "Origin of the Species" ; and their mutual friendship with Mrs. Mary Everest Boole. Wedgwood writes from: 31 Queen Anne Street; 13 Upper Wimpole Street; The Grove, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge; Idle Rocks, Stone, Staffordshire and 94 Gower Street, W.C..

Lodge, Sir Oliver

File consists of correspondence between Sir Oliver Lodge and Welby. Topics include: their visit to Lumley; new acquaintance Mr. A. P. Laurie; Welby hosting Romanes, Mrs. W.K. Clifford, Andrew Lang and Edward Stanhope in November 1889; reading Jevon's Principles of Science; the influence of Dr. Hertz, Prof. Fitzgerald, Dr. Joule Thomson, Prof. Glaisher and Lord Rayleigh on her work; scientific writing; psychology; science of meaning; Lodge sending a "psychical report" to Welby; investigation of "multiple/multiplex characters" by psychologists, physiologists and physicists; Welby's 'vibration diagrams'; Dr. Foster and his "central nervous system"; the work of Prof. C. V. Boys, Prof. Lloyd Morgan, Shadworth Hodgson, M.M. Maxim, Langley, Lankester, Geddes, Dr. Aug. Waller, Mr. Poulton, Mr. James Scully; Welby's efforts to get Lodge to bring Nicola Tesla to an Easter gathering in 1892 that would include Dr. and Mrs. Romanes, Prof. Ray Lankester, Prof. Lloyd Morgan, E.B. Poulton, E.B. Titchener, J. Scully, Shadworth Hodgson, Arthur Balfour and Mr. and Lady Cecil Scott-Montagu. Lodge writes from 21 Waverly Road, Liverpool . File also includes an envelope annotated "The Lodge - Hershel Letters" containing transcriptions of letters from 1892.

Boys, Prof. C. V. (Charles Vernon?)

File consists of folder of handwritten, typed and typescript excerpts of letters between Welby and C.V. Boys. Topics include: Welby inviting Boys to lecture to Science and Art classes, inviting him to Denton at Easter in 1889; Boys inviting Welby and party to visiting him "to see the machine in action"; Boys experiments on spiders regarding vibration; the primariness of the curve; geo-centrism; Professor Clifford, Prof. Lloyd Morgan; visiting M. Cornu in Paris to see his apparatus; visiting M.E. Donkin at Cooper's Hill and Holloway College; Dr. Lodge's metaphysics; Welby's introduction to Mr. C. Cunynghame and Karl Pearson.
Written from 11 Alexander Square SW, 7 Brownton Square SW, Science and Art Department, South Kensignton and Oxford and the Cavendish Experiment.

Lang, Andrew

File consists of voluminous correspondence between Andrew Lang and Welby, originals, as well as typed copies and duplicates. Topics of discussion include: VW's work, ghosts, ghost theory, treatment of the dead, a falling out with Mr. Sayce, metaphysics of "certain savage races", "Primitive Intelligence", a visit by Prof. Patrick Geddes, significs, expression, impression, feedback that Welby received from Lloyd Morgan on "Practical Religion", reaction to the publication of "Mind", death of Aubrey Moore, Welby's "linking" work, Father Gerard's essays on Evolution and Thought, a study of specific terms ("rubbish", "inference", "primitive humans"), animal reactions to ghosts and the failures of translations, Father Harper, Wilfred Ward, reading the work of Perrault, and Welby's frustration at not being able to publish "Links & Clues". Includes one copy of a letter from Mrs. Lang. Lang writes from Selkirk, Edinburgh.

Photographs of Lillian Barr and Wilbur Powe

File consists of three formal portraits of Powe’s parents, Lillian (Lilly) Ann Barr and Wilbur Powe. One photograph may be a wedding portrait, and the other two are individual portraits of Lillian and Wilbur taken at different times.

Family photographs from Mae Duncan

File consists of photocopied historical photographs of family members related to both Mae Duncan and her grand neice Lynn Gehl (nee Glassford). Most images are annotated with identifying information, marriage dates and other contextual details.

Abel, Dr Karl

File consists of typed, handwritten and transcribed excerpts from correspondence between VW and Karl Abel. The two corresponded at the suggestion of Professor Sayce. Welby sought out Dr. Abel and shared her writing on mental biology, seeking his feedback on her ideas. Welby also invited Abel to visit her in Denton. Keywords include: psychology of language, pscyological semantics, mental evolution, folklore, etymology, IndoEuropean languages.

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