| Description | The majority of these letters are written by members of Isabella Galton's immediate family, including her husband, John Howard Galton, and her sons Theodore Howard Galton, Douglas Galton and Robert Cameron Galton. Significant correspondence includes letters from John Howard Galton and Theodore Howard Galton which contain detailed information about travel in Germany and in Spain in the 1830s and 1840s. Letters from members of the Strutt family, including her cousins Edward Strutt and Jedediah Strutt, and her father, Joseph Strutt, largely concern financial affairs; those from her cousins are primarily concerned with the administration of the will of Joseph Strutt and his bequests to her and her children. Other letters which concern financial affairs include those from Maria Douglas Clay and Joseph Pickering, illegitimate children of her brother, Joseph Douglas Strutt, and from Noah Jones and A. S. Thelwall, which contain details about the background and financial hardship suffered by these individuals. |