Merivale, Herman, 1806-1874 (under secretary of state for India)

Scope and Contents The Correspondence of Sir Roderick Impey Murchison series consists of: letters from Murchison to his wife, 1854 and 1857 miscellaneous correspondence and notes (including letters to Sir Archibald Geikie) 1831-1871 correspondence relating to Murchison's dispute with Adam Sedgwick regarding Silurian classification 1838 and 1852-1866 assorted...

Scope and Contents This volume is entitled "E. Divines, Metaphysicians, Philologists" and contains 175 items: 118 autograph letters and documents 57 portraits, comprising 40 albumen print photographs, 16 engravings, and 1 lithograph. Ainger, Alfred. ALS to Katharine Lyell. 9 February 1885. 2 pp. Ainger is best known for his memoirs of English authors. Declining a dinner invitation, saying that being in Hampstead Heath he...

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Autograph letter signed from Herman Merivale to the conchologist and botanist Mary Horner Lyell, London (“Colonial Office At 14”), no date: “It will give me very much pleasure to dine with you tomorrow (Tuesday) and the more in family the better as far as I am concerned. Your note did not reach me till today, as I went down on Saturday to pass two nights at my brothers’ in Essex. I will be with you at half past six, unless you should send me a note here to put me off [...]”.

Scope and Contents This black notebook contains a record on Charles Lyell’s discussions, theories, and ideas in London - with detailed notes of a social nature, of a visit to Bowood - after his return from his second visit to the U.S (Notebooks 121-145). In this notebook, he covers events and locations from both the U.S and the U.K including Durham, Richmond Valley, Harley Street, Prince Edward Island, Mildenhall, New York, etc. Lyell’s comments on America are profuse, but they don’t appear to have made it...

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The Sir Roderick Impey Murchison correspondence (gold) consists of: