Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (née Horner)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1808 - 1873
Found in 229 Collections and/or Records:
Draft Marriage Contract between Charles Lyell and Mary Horner, 1832
File
Identifier: Coll-203/B8/2
Scope and Contents
Created and signed Oneas Mcbean W.S., dated 1832 and 1844.
Dates:
1832
Drafts of future lectures for Royal Institution, or US, 19 March 1850 - 1 June 1851
File
Identifier: Coll-203/B14/12
Scope and Contents
A series of drafts - short and long notes - and lists of illustrations which are mostly unidentified as to which institution they were prepared for - but all relate to coal. They were possibly prepared as lectures to the Royal Institution, or as new lectures for the US - both titles appear within these notes. Most are undated, some are dated March and May 1850.
'Notes for future lectures on Coal', draft...
Dates:
19 March 1850 - 1 June 1851
"E. Divines, Metaphysicians, Philologists", 1805-1899
Item
Identifier: Coll-1997/1
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...
Dates:
1805-1899
Ephemera relating to American Tour, 1842-1853
Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 3.14: Series Coll-203/B18; Series Coll-203/B17
Identifier: Coll-203/B17
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Certificates from Niagara Falls recording the passing behind the falls to Termination Rock 7th June 1842. One issued for Charles Lyell and one for Mary Lyell, signed Isaiah Starkey
Handwritten itinerary of US Tours 1845, 1845 - 1846
Card of Columbia College 1853
Invitation card to dinner at Faneuil Hall, celebrating the 77th Anniversary of American...
Dates:
1842-1853
"F. Chemists, Physicians, Travellers, and Geographers", 1808-1897
Item
Identifier: Coll-1997/2
Scope and Contents
This volume is entitled "F. Chemists, Physicians, Travellers, and Geographers" and contains 85 letters addressed to Sir Charles Lyell and others in his family by physicists, chemists, explorers, geographers, geologists, and doctors and surgeons. Most of the letters are accompanied by a facing photograph or portrait print of the letter’s author.
Humphry Davy, chemist, with signed portrait [plate]. 1...
Dates:
1808-1897
Fergusson, James, 9 March 1871, 5 May 1883.
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/21
Scope and Contents
1. Autograph letter signed from James Fergusson to Mary Horner Lyell, dated 9 March 1871: “Many thanks for the article you were kind enough to send me giving an account of the diggings at Taxila. They are extremely intending & I must try and follow up the thread they afford. It surprises me however to hear your corresponding talking of the discovery of Taxila – The site of this city was emerged in the cold weather 1863/4 by Genl. Cunningham & his account published in extenso by...
Dates:
9 March 1871, 5 May 1883.
Gibson, John, 22 August [no year]
Item
Identifier: Coll-1989/26
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from John Gibson to Mary Horner Lyell, St. James, 22 August, no year: "Mr & Mrs Tilghman Huskisson have invited me to visit them at Cartham near Chichester – I have proposed to wait upon them next Monday & to stay 2 or 3 days. I am sorry that I cannot visit upon you on Tuesday – with many thanks I remain […]". With autograph note by the addressee.
Dates:
22 August [no year]
Grande Canaria, 1855
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 185-196
Scope and Contents
Handwritten article on the geology of Grande [sic Gran] Canaria and the way in which the rocks were formed. Seeming to be a summary of Lyell's observations while on the island, 1855. It is not in his handwriting, and is perhaps written by Mary Lyell, or Georg Hartung.
Dates:
1855
Hamilton, Edward, 29 June [no year]
Item
Identifier: Coll-1989/30
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from Edward Hamilton to Mary Horner Lyell, undated: “I am very sorry to say that since my illness last year I have taken my name off the Burlington Fine Arts Club ... and thus quite unable to do what would have given me great pleasure if I had been a member [...]”.
Dates:
29 June [no year]
Index Notebooks, 1855 - 1871
Series
Identifier: Coll-203/A5
Scope and Contents
This series of sixteen Index notebooks appears as one single set, however, there are different series within - some groups, and individual specific indexes. They appear to have been created from 1855 and are an attempt by Lyell and his team (they feature several different sets of handwriting, especially the General Indexes) to facilitate access to information gathered and held in other series of records, including the Offprints, the Scientific notebooks and correspondence. One can assume...
Dates:
1855 - 1871