Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 1764-1854 (American merchant, slave trader, smuggler and philanthropist)

Scope and Contents This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from April 5th to April 14, 1846. The notebook starts in Louisville, Kentucky as Lyell travels north along the Ohio River in the steamer Ben Franklin, arriving in Cincinnati on April 7th. On April 13th Lyell resumed travel up the Ohio River, bound for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The index is located in the back of the notebook on eight unnumbered pages. Notes are in pencil and ink. Content warning:...

Scope and Contents This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from 28 May 1846 to 6 June [actual date of 6th presumed, as that is the first date of the next notebook] 1846, covering the end of the Lyells’ visit in the United States through the approximate first half of their ocean passage to England. They had returned to Boston on 21 May, and spent ten days socializing there, prior to embarking on their voyage home to England. They departed from Boston on 1 June, aboard the RMS Britannia, stopping at...