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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
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/10
Scope and Contents
1. Autograph letter signed from Augustus Wall Calcott dated 4 October [ca 1837], no place. Letter of excuse to Mrs. Horner, probably Anna Susanna Horner, wife of Leonard Horner: “I regret that I cannot have the pleasure of accepting Mr Horner’s & your invitation for Thursday the 12. I am under an engagement to accompany my friend Mr Wells on a visit to the Duke of Bedford at Woburn at the beginning of the next week and shall not be in Town again before Saturday the 14th. – Lady Callcott...
Dates:
4 October [c 1837]; undated
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by Katharine Lyell in her editorial of 'Life, Letters and Journals', with some marked 'not copied', published or unpublished.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
Item
Identifier: Coll-1989/18
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from Lowes Cato Dickinson to Mary Horner Lyell, All Souls Place, London, July 6th [1895]: “I am very sorry not to be able to com to you on the 9th, but there is a standing engagement to go with my daughter to a garden Party at Harrow. I want to see you & rather hope you may be induced to come here – & see some pictures I have been painting […] if not I shall take my chance of finding you one day between 5 o 6 or a little later […]”.
Dates:
6 July 1895
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/21
Scope and Contents
1. Autograph letter signed from James Fergusson to Mary Horner Lyell, dated 9 March 1871: “Many thanks for the article you were kind enough to send me giving an account of the diggings at Taxila. They are extremely intending & I must try and follow up the thread they afford. It surprises me however to hear your corresponding talking of the discovery of Taxila – The site of this city was emerged in the cold weather 1863/4 by Genl. Cunningham & his account published in extenso by...
Dates:
9 March 1871, 5 May 1883.
Item
Identifier: Coll-1989/26
Scope and Contents
1. Autograph letter signed from John Gibson to Anna Susanna Horner (née Lloyd), 25 June [1857], stating his reasons for not being able to follow her invitations: “I have been here for days and been much engaged. Often thinking of you all & intending to wait upon you soon. On Saturday I am sorry to say that I am engaged all the day & ev[enin]g too – I have brought with me from Rome my clever young pupil Miss Hosmer [i. e. the American sculptor Harriet Hosmer, the first female...
Dates:
25 June [1857], 16 July [no year], 22 August [no year]
Item
Identifier: Coll-1989/30
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from Edward Hamilton to Mary Horner Lyell, undated: “I am very sorry to say that since my illness last year I have taken my name off the Burlington Fine Arts Club ... and thus quite unable to do what would have given me great pleasure if I had been a member [...]”.
Dates:
29 June [no year]
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
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
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
