ID# 1941:
Mary Dendy letter to Karl Pearson, follow-up on definition of feeble-mindedness with reference to British eugenic legislation (12/5/1912)
Date:
1912
Pages: 1 of 1
Source:
University College London, KP, 186

Mary Dendy letter to Karl Pearson, follow-up on definition of feeble-mindedness with reference to British eugenic legislation (12/5/1912)

The Incorporated Lancashire and Cheshire Society For the Permanent Care of the Feeble-Minded. [centered double score] Hon. Sec.: Miss Dendy, M.A., 13, Clarence Road, Withington, Manchester. [indented score] Hon. Treas.: Sam Gamble, Esq., Wilbraham Road, Fallowfield, Manchester. [indented long score] Any further communications on the subject of this letter should be addressed to: Miss Dendy, M.A., 13, Clarence Road, Withington, Manchester. Telephone: 129 Didsbury. [seal of University College London to the right of text] December 3 1912. Dear Professor Pearson, I am afraid I have been lengthy without being definite. I hope you may be able to get something useful out of what I have written. I do not think that any other new definitions of Feeble-minded have put forward except the one I give you. I know you will have all those that are most commonly in use. We want a new phraseology for the subject pretty badly. I would try again, but am excessively busy just now. I have had a great deal of writing to do for those who have been seeing the N.D.Bill so far on its ill-fated career; and now have been excessively anxious least the Control Bill should be put in its place - of so goodbye to all efficient legislation for years to come. I wish I could just come and be one of your staff - not in the sense that Miss Elderton is - of course - but just as a clerical worker and collector. I should be so glad to be rid of responsibility and only do what I was told. My lists of cases increase greatly - I have some four thousand now on my card-catalogue. I am finding a great many histories of cancer in the forebears of the F.M.'s but have not collected - or rather sorted out enough cases to be significant from your point of view I think. With kind regards, Yours very faithfully, [signed]Mary Dendy [handwritten addendum]I shall be a Hamptons for Xmas. [end]

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