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Correspondence, manuscripts, memorabilia, and printed material by and about George Udny Yule, English statistician. 17 letters are from Yule to John Wishart, who took over his chair in mathematical statistics at Cambridge University in 1931, with carbons of his letters from Wishart, and 2 letters from Sir Frank Leonard Engledow to Wishart concerning Yule. Letters in the late 1940's are of a more personal nature, because of his early retirement for health reasons. He was a man of many interests, seen in his manuscript poem, his early printed article for the Royal Statistical Society, and the various memorabilia

Correspondence, manuscripts, addresses, documents and printed materials. Correspondents include: Milton Friedman, Samuel S. Wilks, Nathan Pusey, William Proxmire, Helen M. Walker, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Alfred Cowles, 3d and Ragnar Frisch. The papers also include biographical, teaching and research materials; publications and drafts of articles and books including his study, "The Teaching of Statistics," and materials on the concept of "Hotelling's Generalized T."