Buckley, Arabella Burton, 1840 – 1929 (Writer and Educator)

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Notebook No.259, 4 July 1871 - 21 September 1871

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

Identifier: Coll-203/A1/259

Scope and Contents Red leather notebook, with index at the back. Page 1 starts with a list of Books taken on Summer Tour, including ‘Prehistoric Archaeology’ 1858, ‘Fuel of the Sun’, ‘Astronomy without Mathematics’, Black’s ‘Atlas’ and Notebooks 256, 211, 210 and 117. Lyell’s group left London on the 4th July, for Derby, then tours the Lake District Lyell's own index Notebook is written by Lyell – scrappy writing and corrections at times – as well as Arabella...

Dates: 4 July 1871 - 21 September 1871

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

Notebook No.260, 27 September 1871 - 7 May 1872

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

Identifier: Coll-203/A1/260

Scope and Contents Red leather Notebook starts at Penrith, as Lyell then travels south, via Appleby, Lancaster to Lichfield, to London then Folkestone and into France. He travels with Mary, Hughes, Beovill, and meets with many experts along the way. Most of the notebook is written by Buckley, who orders the narrative by date using the Itinerary – with sections added by Lyell in poor writing, and others – perhaps Mary, as well as local people noting down journey times. Whilst travelling in France, Lyell makes...

Dates: 27 September 1871 - 7 May 1872