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Horner, Joanna Baillie, b 1823 (Writer)

 Person

Staff Only

Dates

  • Existence: 1823-

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Arrivabene, Giovanni, 20 May 1866

 File
Identifier: Coll-1989/3
Scope and Contents Autograph letter in Italian from Giovanni Arrivabene to probably to Susan or Joanna Horner about his departure to Turin the next day and his regretting not being able to follow their invitation: "Il Conte Arrivabene parte domani par Torino. Non potrà quindi, con molto suo rincrescimento approffittare del grazioso invito di M Horner". After living in Switzerland, France, England and Belgium, Arrivabene returned to Italy in 1860 where he became a senator and president of the Italian National...
Dates: 20 May 1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Collection of letters sent by various individuals to members of the Lyell and Horner families

Correspondence from Leonard Horner and family, 1860-1865

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-74/12/4
Scope and Contents

The Correspondence from Leonard Horner and family sub-series consists of:


  1. 22 letters, chronologically arranged (1860-1866)
Dates: 1860-1865
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (H-S)

Draft manuscript concerning the geology of Madeira with index, June 1856

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 301-460
Scope and Contents

Draft manuscript concerning the geology of Madeira with index. Topics covered include: Size and structure of Madeira, Scoriaeceous formations, Fossil remains of 3 periods which are to be found on Madeira, Lavas, Successive eruptions. June 1856. Folio 399-412 is a notebook of drawings by JB [Joanna Baillie] Horner.

Dates: June 1856
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Notes and Correspondence on the geology of the Madeiran and Canary Islands

Index to Notebooks on Geology of Madeira, 186 - 197, c. 1858

 Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A5/14
Scope and Contents This notebook contains short, individual indexes relating to Charles Lyell’s 13 notebooks [references Coll-203/A1/185-197] on his geological travels around Madeira and the Canary Islands, covering his arrival in Madeira in 1853 through to his manuscripts and letters created back in London in late 1854. The first page details his route through the islands, by year and place, with the corresponding Scientific Notebook given. Each individual Scientific Notebook from 185-197 is then also...
Dates: c. 1858
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Index Notebooks

Letters from Charles Lyell to his father, sisters, mother-in-law and sister-in-law, August 1845 - 21 September 1849

 File
Identifier: Coll-203/B4/11
Scope and Contents Letters written by Charles and Mary Lyell, to their family including their arrival in Newfoundland and travels in America. One letter identified in this series was written by Charles to Mary, and so has been removed and is now part of series B7. Letter written to his mother-in-law, Anne Susanna Horner, at Kinnordy. Unpublished. August 1845 To Marianne, written 'Off Trepassey Bay,...
Dates: August 1845 - 21 September 1849
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence - Letters from Sir Charles Lyell to his family