Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist)

Notebook No.129, 3 January 1846 - 10 January 1846

Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1

Identifier: Coll-203/A1/129

Scope and Contents Notebook No. 129 was kept by Lyell during his trip to America in 1845-6, mostly written in pencil, after his lecture tour, with visits to Hopeton Plantation, St. Simon's Island, and Georgia. It contains his observations while he visited several plantations worked by enslaved people extracted from undocumented regions of Africa, and bought at auction. Mr. and Mrs. Lyell stayed with James Hamilton Couper at Hopeton plantation for two weeks in January 1846. Couper was a member of the British...

Dates: 3 January 1846 - 10 January 1846

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.130, 10 January 1846-20 January 1846

Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1

Identifier: Coll-203/A1/130

Scope and Contents This red notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s visit to the United States of America (started in Notebook 121) recording his time spent around Georgia (Hopeton-on-the-Altamaha, Macon, Milledgeville, Savannah, Parramore Hill, Scottsboro, Gordon, and Upatoi creek) with detailed visits to Macon and the surrounding areas. It covers many diverse discussions covering topics of the everyday lives of slaves, slavery, abolition, religion, war, floral and faunal specimens, and geological...

Dates: 10 January 1846-20 January 1846

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.155, January 1848- May 1848

Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1

Identifier: Coll-203/A1/155

Scope and Contents This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s discussions, ideas, and recordings when in London, starting in January 1848 and including some focus on ’Americana’ before his second travels in American was published in 1849. The first pages (and from p 78] are notes on pages and references relating to the other American notebooks - which could be publishing related or organisational. It covers conversations, queries, and discussions he started in America including geological,...

Dates: January 1848- May 1848

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.241, 14 September 1859-21 October 1859

Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 8: Series Coll-203/A1

Identifier: Coll-203/A1/241

Scope and Contents This green leather bound Notebook records Lyell's travels in Aberdeenshire then on down the East coast to Scarborough, Filey, Cromer and Diss. Page 71 onwards are Lyell's notes on Darwin's 'Creation of Species' with further discussion thereafter. There is a black and white photograph of Roydon Oolite on page 171. Page 74 references a specimen Cephalaspis lyelli Agassiz at GLammis, now held by the Cockburn Museum. Lyell's Own Index...

Dates: 14 September 1859-21 October 1859

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.244, 23 July 1860-1 November 1860

Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1

Identifier: Coll-203/A1/244

Scope and Contents Teal coloured leather Notebook documents Lyell’s travels from Liege to Bonn, Weimar to London. During this time, he is preparing the manuscript for his ‘The Antiquity of Man’. The research in this Notebook significantly changes his plans for the manuscript. The importance of this Notebook is highlighted by Claudine Cohen in the article ‘Charles Lyell and the evidences of the Antiquity of Man’ published 1998. Transcription note The following...

Dates: 23 July 1860-1 November 1860

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.254, August 1868-1 March 1869

Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1

Identifier: Coll-203/A1/254

Scope and Contents This dark red Notebook starts in London with Mary and Leonard Lyell, and documents travels in Pembrokeshire, Wales, with an index created by Arabella Buckley. Lyell studies submerged forests, beaches, caves and iron works making notes and sketches, and referencing experts as well as local guides. Several meetings 'with Darwin'. Final pages relate to Grindle Pit, Bury St Edmunds, with sections written by Buckley that appear to be dictated by Lyell. ...

Dates: August 1868-1 March 1869

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.255, 18 March 1869-28 April 1869

Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1

Identifier: Coll-203/A1/255

Scope and Contents This dark red Notebook is annotated with Lyell's name, address at 73 Harley Street, London. The Notebook documents work based along the coast of Norfolk, as Lyell travels with Mary [presumed as she is not mentioned], Buckley and his nephew Leonard Lyell - who is credited with observations and finds. From Norfolk, they head to Hull and Withernsea. In this Notebook, not every page is numbered. This Notebook contains sections where Buckley describes their field work, recording observations like...

Dates: 18 March 1869-28 April 1869

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.258, 22 April 1870-3 July 1871

Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 9: Series Coll-203/A1

Identifier: Coll-203/A1/258

Scope and Contents This black Notebook is annotated with Lyell's name, address at 73 Harley Street, London. The Notebook begins with the end a tour of Devon - started in the previous Notebook 257 - with Lyell in Barnstaple. Mostly written by Buckley, there are sections of very poor writing at times, which could be Lyell's own. From Devon to Bristol Clifton Bridge and Bath. Time following up queries and visiting the British Museum in London is followed by train to Glasgow with Mary and Leonard, then to the Isle...

Dates: 22 April 1870-3 July 1871

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Papers of Richard Bright and James Franck Bright

Fonds — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Coll-344

Scope and Contents The papers are composed of an accumulation of manuscript letters to both Richard Bright and his son James Franck Bright and letters between other correspondents. The letters collected by the daughters of the Bright family include those from Roget, Lord Salisbury, Oscar Wilde, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Elizabeth Fry, and Robert Browning and many other nineteenth century notables. The collection includes a manuscript fragment - or leaf - from the Origin of the...

Dates: 19th century - 20th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-203

Scope and Contents

10 boxes of correspondence
2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
24 boxes of offprints of papers
294 notebooks

Dates: 1820-1874

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

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Notebook No.129, 3 January 1846 - 10 January 1846

Notebook No.130, 10 January 1846-20 January 1846

Notebook No.155, January 1848- May 1848

Notebook No.241, 14 September 1859-21 October 1859

Notebook No.244, 23 July 1860-1 November 1860

Notebook No.254, August 1868-1 March 1869

Notebook No.255, 18 March 1869-28 April 1869

Notebook No.258, 22 April 1870-3 July 1871

Papers of Richard Bright and James Franck Bright

Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

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