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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
Correspondence - Letters between Sir Charles Lyell and Mary E. Lyell (neé Horner), 4 August 1831 - 13 July 1863
Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 3.7: Series Coll-203/B7; Series Coll-203/B6; Series Coll-203/B8; Series Coll-203/B5
Identifier: Coll-203/B7
Scope and Contents
A series of letters by Charles Lyell to Miss Mary Horner, his fiancee, later his wife - and also some from Mary to Charles - both before and after their marriage. After originally being married in Bonn, Germany, Charles and Mary were married again at Kirriemuir on the 28th September 1832. The earlier dated letters are voluminous and detailed. Their number lessens over time, due to the Lyell's being together always:
1) 4th August 1831 - 25th October 1831
2) 1st November 1831 -...
Dates:
4 August 1831 - 13 July 1863
"E. Divines, Metaphysicians, Philologists", 1805-1899
Item
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
Ephemera relating to American Tour, 1840s
Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 3.14: Series Coll-203/B18; Series Coll-203/B17
Identifier: Coll-203/B17
Scope and Contents
Card of Columbia College 1853;
Certificates from Niagara Falls recording the passing behind the falls to Termination Rock 7th June 1842. One issued for Charles Lyell and one for Mary Lyell, signed Isaiah Starkey;
Handwritten itinerary of US Tours 1845, 1845 - 1846;
Chronological time line of his life from 1804 to 1875.
Dates:
1840s
"F. Chemists, Physicians, Travellers, and Geographers", 1808-1897
Item
Identifier: Coll-1997/2
Scope and Contents
This volume is entitled "F. Chemists, Physicians, Travellers, and Geographers" and contains 85 letters addressed to Sir Charles Lyell and others in his family by physicists, chemists, explorers, geographers, geologists, and doctors and surgeons. Most of the letters are accompanied by a facing photograph or portrait print of the letter’s author.
Humphry Davy, chemist, with signed portrait [plate]. 1...
Dates:
1808-1897
Horner, Leonard, 24 November 1829-8 September 1863
File
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
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 5 June 1865-6 June 1865
File
Identifier: Coll-203/B3/9
Scope and Contents
Detailing Lyell's concerns and proposed actions, relating to a proposal by Huxley, to work to cancel a note and to add a P.S. [postscript] to the preface of 'Antiquity of Man', relating to Lubbock's challenge. Lyell writes that he has shown the resultant correspondance prior to these letters, to Hooker, Busk and then Darwin:
5 June 1865 Lyell writes in haste - Mary takes over the writing - as he is preparing to leave for 3 months on the Continent.
6 June 1865 Lyell writes again,...
Dates:
5 June 1865-6 June 1865
Index - Madeira, 5 November 1856 - 1857
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A4/1
Scope and Contents
No actual index. Appears to contain multiple indexes to:
- Lyell's published works on Madeira and Canary Islands
- the 2nd Edition from page 80, and to older or first editions from page 86.
p. 1-54 Questions on other's papers on Madeira, how to publish the Canary Islands paper - perhaps part written in German with Hartung. Page by page review of Madeira text with Lyell's own observational drawings, then Memoranda to action for the paper.
p. 55 - 70 Manual of Elementary...
Dates:
5 November 1856 - 1857
Kemble, Fanny, 8 [March 1865]; 5 April 1865; 25 October 1885
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/35
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three autograph letters signed, sent from Fanny Kemble to Mary Lyell and Katharine Murray Lyell, dated 8 [March 1865], 16 April 1865 and 25 October 1885. There also is a small autograph envelope with wax seal, and a clipping from another autograph envelope.1. Letter from Fanny Kemble to Lady Mary Horner Lyell, in response to an invitation and concerning the American Civil War (London, Wednesday 8th [probably March 1865, though a pencil note falsely...
Dates:
8 [March 1865]; 5 April 1865; 25 October 1885
Madeira and Canaries Notebook, 2 August 1858 - 16 May 1859
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/A4/2
Scope and Contents
Notebook of discussions, reading, drawings and copy letters (in Mary's writing) made whilst with Hartung at Swingenberg, Germany. Appears to be working through a previous publication, making revisions or notes, especially on volcanoes, lava slopes, elevations and upheaval. Many pages written in pencil. Blank from page 89 onwards. This notebook has no index.
p. 1 Begins at Swingenberg with Hartung. Discussion of Azores.
p. 4 Scrope's Volcanoes
p. 8 Erratics
p. 11...
Dates:
2 August 1858 - 16 May 1859