| Description | In addition to general information about family and domestic life at Dudson, including details about the animals kept by John Howard Galton, and about social activities with relations and family friends such as the Boultons, the Watts and others in Birmingham society and the Darwins and Strutts at Derby, a major theme of these letters is the education that John Howard Galton received at school at Oxford, and while studying with Professor Mylne at Glasgow. They indicate Samuel Galton jnr 's keen interest in his son's education and his wish to take an active role in his academic studies. Later letters also contain advice about the development of his religious and spiritual education, and instructions for the formation of good character. Most of the letters date from the time when John Howard Galton was at Oxford and Glasgow, but there are some letters which were written while he was on tour in Europe, and others written around the time of his marriage to Isabella Strutt. |