Scope and Contents This series, 'Biographical', includes some of Bateson's childhood letters to his parents, with school reports and part of a 'scholarship essay'. There is a substantial quantity of family correspondence, almost all letters from Bateson to his wife (1886-1925), his sons (1911-1925), his mother (1883-1914) and his sisters (1888-1904).The largest group of papers in the section relates to Bateson's important tour of western central Asia, 1886-1887, concentrating on the Aral Sea area,...