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Autograph Letter Signed from Leonard Horner to his daughter Lady Mary Lyell, 31 July 1860

 Item — Box CLX-A-1705
Identifier: Coll-1848/22-0015
Scope and Contents

This is an autograph letter signed from the geologist and reformer Leonard Horner to his daughter Lady Mary Lyell, widow of Sir Charles Lyell, quoting letters from Thomas Longman and the son of Macvey Napier about an Edinburgh Review article on W. H. Prescott. The letter is dated 31 July 1860.

Dates: 31 July 1860
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Commonplace Book - Extracts by Charles Lyell - Prose and Verse, 1826

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Identifier: Coll-203/A2/5
Scope and Contents Small label affixed reads 'Extracts by Charles Lyell Prose & Verse - Crown Office Temple Row'. Commonplace book of notes and quotations compiled by Lyell when a practicing barrister in London in his early twenties. The book is inscribed with his address: 9 Crown Office Row, Temple, where he moved in 1826 after vacating the cramped quarters he had known as a law student in nearby Norfolk Street (no longer in existence, checked 2021). This Notebook is paginated. Insertion at the front of...
Dates: 1826
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

"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

Horner, Leonard, 24 November 1829-8 September 1863

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Identifier: Coll-203/B3/8
Scope and Contents

Letters include notes from Mary, and many are in Mary's writing on behalf of Charles, written whilst in London, at Kinnordy, on board the Perth steamer, in America - including New York, Ontario, Georgia, Alabama, Philadelphia, Boston - Madeira and Tenerife, with two packets covering trips in Germany and Italy. They are in 3 folders:
1829-1849
1850-1859
1860-1863

Dates: 24 November 1829-8 September 1863
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from Leonard Horner to [Samuel Birch], 18 August 1861

 Item — Box CLX-A-1593
Identifier: Coll-1848/21-0038
Scope and Contents

This is an autograph letter signed from Leonard Horner to [Samuel Birch], dated 18 August 1861, Bury St Edmonds. The letter relates to the hypothesis that burnt bricks were known in Egypt before the time of the Romans, which Birch, Lyell and Horner defended against Archdeacon John Pratt.

Dates: 18 August 1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 3
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Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904 (English biographer and critic) 1
Aristotle, 384-322 BC (Greek philosopher) 1
Bacon, Roger, ? 1214-1294 (English philosopher and Franciscan friar) 1
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Barnett, Samuel Augustus, 1844-1913 (English cleric and social reformer) 1
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 (American Congregationalist clergyman and social reformer) 1
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832 (English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer) 1
Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 (British Egyptologist and antiquarian) 1
Bleek, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel, 1827-1875 (German linguist) 1
Brooke, Stopford Augustus, 1832-1916 (Irish churchman, royal chaplain and writer) 1
Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord, 1788?1824 (sixth Baron Byron | poet ) 1
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847 (Principal and Professor of Divinity at New College) 1
Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 (American Unitarian preacher and theologian) 1
Colenso, John, 1814-1883 (Cornish cleric and mathematician, Zulu and biblical scholar, first Bishop of Natal) 1
Crabbe, George, 1754-1832 1
Dawes, Richard, 1793-1867 (English cleric and educationalist) 1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 (American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet) 1
Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903 (English cleric, schoolteacher and author) 1
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1728 -1774 ( Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet) 1
Goumans, E. L, fl 1871 (Correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1
Grimm, Jacob (Jacob Ludwig Karl), 1785-1863 (German linguist and mythologist) 1
Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859 ( German author and anthropologist) 1
Hamilton, Sir William, 1788-1856 (metaphysician ) 1
Hansard, Septimus C. H. , Reverend, fl 1862-1890 (Correspondent of Mary Lyell, Rector of Bethnal Green) 1
Horace, 65 BC- 8 BC (Roman poet) 1
Horner, Francis, 1778-1817 (Whig politician, journalist, and political economist) 1
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 1
Jamieson, John, 1759-1838 (Scottish minister of religion, lexicographer, philologist and antiquary) 1
Juvenal, fl c 60-127 (Roman poet) 1
Lyell, Charles, 1767-1849 (Scottish botanist, translator of Dante) 1
Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 1
Lyell, Leonard, 1st Baron Lyell, 1850-1926 1
McCulloch, J R (John Ramsay), 1789-1864 (political economist) 1
Mcculloch, John, 1773-1835 (geologist) 1
Milton, John, 1608-1674 (English poet) 1
Penn, Granville , 1761-1844 1
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 1
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1
Virgil, 70 B.C.-19 B.C. (Roman poet) 1
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