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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
Correspondence - Letters from Sir Charles Lyell , 1829-1874
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-203/B3
Scope and Contents
A series of letters sent by Charles Lyell, to others. Some of these correspondents also appear in the two A-Z series. It is not clear why these letters have been separated from earlier series of records, however they may have been gathered together by Katharine Lyell in her editorial of 'Life, Letters and Journals', with some marked 'not copied', published or unpublished.
Agassiz Memorial Fund
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Dates:
1829-1874
"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
Grande Canaria, 1855
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/2/folio(s) 185-196
Scope and Contents
Handwritten article on the geology of Grande [sic Gran] Canaria and the way in which the rocks were formed. Seeming to be a summary of Lyell's observations while on the island, 1855 - it is not in his handwriting, and is perhaps written by Mary Lyell, or Georg Hartung.
Dates:
1855
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
Kean, Charles, 19 May 1845; early March 1846; 26 October 1850
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/33
Scope and Contents
1. Autograph letter signed from Charles Kean to Mrs. Horner, probably Anne Susanna Horner, in response to an invitation, dated 19 May 1845, Keydell House, Horndean (Hampshire): "It will, I assure you, give Mrs. Kean and myself great pleasure to wait upon you at Dinner next Monday 26th. We hope to reach no. 3 Torrington Square tomorrow evening and had intended to return home next Saturday but as we cannot resist your kind invitation we shall delay our stay in Town until Tuesday morning 27th....
Dates:
19 May 1845; early March 1846; 26 October 1850