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Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 (American Unitarian preacher and theologian)

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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

"E. Divines, Metaphysicians, Philologists", 1805-1899

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Albums containing autograph letters to Sir Charles Lyell and family, and portraits of the writers, compiled by Leonard Lyell

Letters from Ticknor, Prof. George (of Boston, Massachusetts), to Charles Lyell, 14 December 1843 - 20 January 1861

 File — Box Box 3.3: Series Coll-203/B1
Identifier: Coll-203/B1/96
Scope and Contents Large folder of letters written from Boston, Massachusetts, including letter from Anna Ticknor to Mary Lyell: Letter relates to the history of slavery in the United States, with commentary on current affairs, with references to Nat Turner's Rebellion [Southampton Insurrection], abolitionism, slavery, the Northwest Ordinance, and the Virginia Debate of 1832. First eight pages are in the handwriting of...
Dates: 14 December 1843 - 20 January 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Correspondence to Charles Lyell, A-Z 'Acceptance in Lieu' tranche

Notebook No.120, 2 September 1845 - 14 September 1845

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/120
Scope and Contents This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from Sept 2nd to 14th, 1845 and is noted at the front as being written while in London and aboard the Steamship Britannia. The index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 109-113 and two unnumbered pages. Notes are in pencil and ink. The Steamship Britannia refers to the Cunard Line's RMS Britannia, which began her first regular passenger and cargo service in 1840, sailing from Liverpool to Boston. ...
Dates: 2 September 1845 - 14 September 1845
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.124, 12 October 1845 - 3 November 1845

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/124
Scope and Contents This notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s visit to the United States of America (started in notebook, Number 121) continuing his travels throughout parts of New England, including Massachusetts with notable site visits in and around Boston and New Hampshire. It is dated from October 12 to November 3, 1845. For the last two thirds of this notebook (and the entirety of the next one, notebook 125) Lyell is centred in Boston for the presentation of his Lowell Lectures, embarking on...
Dates: 12 October 1845 - 3 November 1845
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.143, 4 May 1846 - 12 May 1846

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/143
Scope and Contents This notebook contains Lyell’s notes during his second trip to the United States, dated 5 May 1846, to 11 May 1846. The volume starts with Lyell in Baltimore, travelling through Philadelphia, New York City, Albany, and Troy, New York State. On pg. 12 Lyell notes seeing a humming bird in Miss Watson's Greenhouse. Lyell spends much of his time in upstate New York with a few colleagues: Joseph Cogswell (American librarian), Ebenezer Emmons (American Geologist), James Hall (American...
Dates: 4 May 1846 - 12 May 1846
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.149, 14 December 1846 - 18 January 1847

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/149
Scope and Contents This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s discussions, ideas, and recordings of December 1846 whilst he was back in the U.K, based at 11 Harley Street, London, after his second travel to America. Throughout this notebook there are crossed out memorandums and geological references alongside contemporary political and religious discussions. The Wandering Jew references are continued in this notebook as in Notebooks 146 and 147. Places Lyell refers to in this notebook include...
Dates: 14 December 1846 - 18 January 1847
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.150, February 1847 - March 1847

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/150
Scope and Contents This black leather notebook was written whilst Lyell was in London, at 11 Harley Street and starts with memoranda, then a list of 'scientific visitors'. Written in London in the years between his travels in America, this notebook considers giraffe and bony fossil fish, but in particular focuses on the work of William, Ellery Channing (April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842), Unitarian preacher, and on race, slavery and religion. Content warning:...
Dates: February 1847 - March 1847
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.153, 19 July 1847 - 6 September 1847

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/153
Scope and Contents This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 19 July 1847 to 18 September 1847 [the stated end date is inferred from the start date of the following notebook]. There is an abstract of a ‘Times Sept. 6. 1847’ article and a discussion in response to a letter from Charles Darwin dated 8 September 1847. Lyell is home in Kinnordy with no excursions or visited locales being explicitly recorded during this time. The approximate first third of the daily entries are focused on the management of...
Dates: 19 July 1847 - 6 September 1847
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

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