| Description | The majority of these letters concern matters relating to Lucy Galton's sons John Howard Galton and Hubert Galton and include a sequence of letters and accounts of expenditure written by John Howard Galton while he was at school at Oxford, as well as a letter from her husband, Samuel Galton jnr, concerning John Howard Galton's supposed engagement to Mary Freer, and from Mary Throckmorton concerning John Howard Galton's illness while staying with the Throckmorton family at Buckland. A letter written by Lucy Galton to David Barclay concerns physical violence directed by him towards her son Hubert Galton while they were both at school together. This section also includes a letter from Mary Galton, written shortly before Lucy Barclay's marriage to Samuel Galton jnr. |