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[FS/3/3/2/2]
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42 Rutland Gate, S.W.
Dear Captain Smith
You are most obliging & helpful. Let me suggest in addition (if not too late) a white streak down the line of the shoulder & possibly elsewhere.
I am making a little, optical instrument that promises to act very well, to standardise colour. Could you manage conveniently
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to get me a few snips of hair, ches:t bay, brown & black, and of 2 or 3 shades of each, for me to mount experimentally[.] As much of the whole lot as could be stuffed into a common envelope, would suffice.
Very faithfully yours
Francis Galton
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[FS/3/3/2/9]
Jan 26/98
42, Rutland Gate. S.W.
Dear Capt Smith
I hope your paper is satisfactorily launched. I spoke to Prof M. Foster about the probability of its arrival.
When you next write, will you kindly tell me a little more about the rope. The question of taughtness is not important, because a mere string or thread by its side, bearing
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two marks A, B, wd suffice for the scale, & cd be easily stretched
[sketch indicating “rope thread”]
tight enough; – but I want more especially to know whether you think a thoroughbred would submit to be led and to stand still between the rope & the wall.
I am busy measuring such photos as I possess, of horses who have been photoed[sic] more than once, in a fairly square position, to see how the results
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agree, taking the height at withers in all cases as 64” (for there is no scale attached to these) and the results are more than reasonably well accordant.
I take measure in these, simply? thee three
[sketch indicating “AC AB DE FG”]
With your 2 scales, along belly & on side, it will be possible not only to repeat and to verify this sort of work, but to do much
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more also. I am ashamed to be troublesome, but only say how grateful I shall be for any that you may send.
Thank you much for the hair I have arranged to have the variously colored[sic] hairs of horses to be analysed at Cambridge.
Some tradesman might drive a paying concern, by selling specimens of hair of famous race horses, neatly mounted between glass. Say three rows of these items in a frame with names below and chief races.
[sketch]
Very faithfully yours
Francis Galton
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Jan 28/98
42, Rutland Gate, S.W.
Dear Captn Smith
Heartiest congratulations about the honorable[sic] medal.
Sincere thanks for what you send. I am just now in bed with bronchial catarrh, but hope to be up & at work again in 2 days. Then I will write further.
Very faithfully yrs
Francis Galton
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