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Archibald Geikie, correpondence

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1815/2
Scope and Contents Letters to Sir Archibald Geike from: Hicks, Henry (25 Oct. 1887); Hooker, Joseph Dalton (Sir) (May 1890); Horne, John (5 Jun. 1898); Huxley, Thomas Henry (17 May 1862); Kidston, Robert (3 Aug. 1883); Lapworth, Charles (Sir) (16 Nov. 1898); Lyell, Charles (Sir) (31 Mar. 1860); Marcou, Jules (5 Jan. 1871); Marcon, Jules (30 Apr. 1878); Milne, John (15 Aug. 1895); Peach, Benjamin Neve (19 Oct. 1898); Prestwich, Joseph (Sir) (15 May 1892?); Scrope, G. Poulett (1866?); Sorby, Henry...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1840s-1940s

Articles, c. 1829-c.1874

 Series — Box Lyell Temp Box 3.13: Series Coll-203/B16
Identifier: Coll-203/B16
Scope and Contents

Articles by Charles Lyell, and articles published in The American Journal of Science and Arts, which have been torn out and collected by Lyell.

Dates: c. 1829-c.1874

Autograph Letter Signed from Charles Lyell to an unknown correspondent, 21 April 1874

 Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0081
Scope and Contents This is an antograph letter signed "Cha. Lyell", sent by Charles Lyell to an unnamed individual, dated 24 April 1874, 73 Harley Street, London. In this letter he thanks his correspondent for "the additional list of Aldeby shells", explaining that he has completed "[his] new edition of the Students Elements [of Geology]" and that he "[had the assistance of Mr Searles Wood". He goes on to discuss papers and maps relating to the geology of the Rhine which Lyell himself had found instructive,...
Dates: 21 April 1874

Bunbury, Sir Charles James Fox , 1844-1874

 File
Identifier: Coll-203/B3/2
Scope and Contents

110 letters, in 6 folders, mostly written from London, some Scotland, dated:
1844-1849
1850-1854
1855-1858
1860-1864
1865-1869
1870-1874

Dates: 1844-1874

Byrne, Frances Charles Horner , 14 November 1867

 File
Identifier: Coll-203/B3/4
Scope and Contents

Thanks for transferring The Edinburgh Review volumes, that appear to have been left to him by Aunt Nancy, and, for the 'french bonbons'. Talks of Rosamond and nephews dancing at Richmond, then comments on 'those articles of the Siecle' asking why 'a government which interferes so much with press and arrests so many on slight pretexts permits such bold expression of opinion'.

Dates: 14 November 1867

Charles Lyell, 1841-1947

 Series
Identifier: Coll-1518/1
Scope and Contents

Papers created by or relating to Sir Charles Lyell.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1841-1947

Charlesworth, Edward, 15 February 1839

 File
Identifier: Coll-203/B3/5
Scope and Contents

Note of reassurance in support of Charlesworth, possibly against Hawkins [letter marked 'Hawkins v Charlesworth], who also appears in Lyell's wider correspondence, but is as yet unidentified.

Dates: 15 February 1839

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

 Item
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

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

Daily and Travel Journals , 1818 - 1830

 Series
Identifier: Coll-203/A2
Scope and Contents

A set of 6 early Notebooks, established by Lyell to record his prose and verse, as well as a trip with his family to Europe, and solo trips in the UK.

Dates: 1818 - 1830

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Names
Lyell, Lady Mary, 1808-1873 (nee Horner) 16
Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 6
Lyell, Katharine Murray, 1817-1915 (nee Horner) 4
Hartung, Georg, 1821 - 1891 (German geologist) 3
Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911 (British botanist, explorer | Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew) 3
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Horner, Leonard, 1785-1864 (Scottish merchant, geologist and educational reformer) 3
Geological Society of London (1807-:) 2
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (man of science) 2
Lyell, Leonard, 1st Baron Lyell, 1850-1926 2
Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, 1814-1891 (Scottish geologist) 2
Wollaston, Thomas Vernon, 1822-1878 (English entomologist and malacologist) 2
Wood, Searles Valentine, 1830-1884 (geologist) 2
Abich, Herman, 1806 - 1886 (German mineralogist and geologist) 1
Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904 (English biographer and critic) 1
American Journal of Science and Arts (1818-:) 1
Aristotle, 384-322 BC (Greek philosopher) 1
Bacon, Roger, ? 1214-1294 (English philosopher and Franciscan friar) 1
Barnett, Samuel Augustus, 1844-1913 (English cleric and social reformer) 1
Beccari, Odoardo, 1843-1920 (Italian botanist) 1
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 (American Congregationalist clergyman and social reformer) 1
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832 (English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer) 1
Bleek, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel, 1827-1875 (German linguist) 1
British Association for the Advancement of Science (1831-:) 1
Brooke, Stopford Augustus, 1832-1916 (Irish churchman, royal chaplain and writer) 1
Buckley, Arabella Burton, 1840 – 1929 (Writer and Educator) 1
Bunbury, Sir Charles James Fox, 1809-1886 (8th Baronet of Barton Hall, Sussex (England) | English naturalist) 1
Byrne, Fanny Horner, 1789-1876 (Married to Irish revolutionary Myles Byrne) 1
Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord, 1788?1824 (sixth Baron Byron | poet ) 1
Carruthers, William, 1830-1922 (botanist, Keeper of the Department of Botany, British Museum) 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
Charlesworth, Edward, 1813-1893 (English geologist and palaeontologist) 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
Donne, William Bodham, 1807-1882 (English journalist, librarian and theatrical censor) 1
Eckersberg, Johan Fredrik, 1822 - 1870 (Norwegian painter) 1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 (American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet) 1
Evans, Sir John, 1823-1908 (archaeologist and numismatist) 1
Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867 (English scientist) 1
Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903 (English cleric, schoolteacher and author) 1
Forbes, Edward, 1815-1854 (Manx naturalist | Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh 1854) 1
Garibaldi, Guiseppe, 1807 - June 1882 (Italian General, Patriot, Revolutionary and Republican) 1
Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924 (Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh) 1
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1728 -1774 ( Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet) 1
Goumans, E. L, fl 1871 (Correspondent of Charles Lyell) 1
Gower, Granville George Leveson-, 1815-1891 (2nd Earl Granville | British Liberal statesman and diplomat) 1
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 (American botanist) 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
Hawkins, John , fl 1832 1
Heath, John Moore, 1808–1882 (English clergyman and educator) 1
Heer, Oswald, 1809-1883 (Swiss botanist, palaeontologist, entomologist | Professor of Botany, University of Zurich) 1
Hicks, Henry, 1837-1899 (Welsh geologist and surgeon) 1
Horace, 65 BC- 8 BC (Roman poet) 1
Horne, John, 1848-1928 (geologist) 1
Horner, Francis, 1778-1817 (Whig politician, journalist, and political economist) 1
Horner, Joanna Baillie, b 1823 (Writer) 1
Horner, Susan, 1816-1900 (Writer) 1
Hutton, James, 1726-1797 (Scottish geologist) 1
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (English biologist and anthropologist) 1
Jamieson, John, 1759-1838 (Scottish minister of religion, lexicographer, philologist and antiquary) 1
Jamieson, Thomas Francis, 1829-1913 (Scottish scientist) 1
Johnson, James Yate, 1820 - 1900 (English naturalist, based in Madeira) 1
Juvenal, fl c 60-127 (Roman poet) 1
Kidston, Robert, 1852-1924 (honorary palaeobotanist to the British Geological Survey) 1
Lapworth, Charles, 1842-1920 (geologist) 1
Lonsdale, William L, 1794-1871 (English geologist and palaeontologist) 1
Lyell, Charles, 1767-1849 (Scottish botanist, translator of Dante) 1
Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 (English obstetrician, geologist, paleontologist) 1
Marcou, Jules, 1824 – 1898 (French-Swiss-American geologist) 1
Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1805-1872 (Italian politician, journalist) 1
McCulloch, J R (John Ramsay), 1789-1864 (political economist) 1
Mcculloch, John, 1773-1835 (geologist) 1
Milne, John, 1850-1913 (mining engineer and seismologist) 1
Milton, John, 1608-1674 (English poet) 1
Moore, John Carrick, 1805–1898 (Geologist and Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Wigtown) 1
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, 1792-1871 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) 1
Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 (English biologist) 1
Peach, Benjamin Neeve, 1842-1926 (geologist) 1
Penn, Granville , 1761-1844 1
Prestwich, Sir Joseph, 1812-1896 (British geologist and businessman, Fellow of the Royal Society) 1
Pulszky, Ferenc, 1814-1897 (Hungarian politician, writer and nobleman) 1
Reiss, Wilhelm, 1838-1908 (German geologist and explorer) 1
Russell, John, 1st Earl Russell, 1792-1878 (British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) 1
Ryan, Edward, 1793-1875 (English lawyer and judge) 1
Scrope, George Julius Poulett, 1797-1876 (geologist and political economist) 1
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (playwright) 1
Smyth, Warington Wilkinson, 1817 – 1890 (British geologist) 1
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 1819-1900 (Italian-born British astronomer ) 1
Sorby, Henry Clifton, 1826-1908 (geologist) 1
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1
Staring, Winand Carel Hugo, 5 October 1808 – 4 June 1877 (Founder of geology in the Netherlands, soil scientist, pioneer in agronomy and forestry, advocate of educational improvement) 1
Starkey, Isaiah 1
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von, Baron, 1730-1794 (Prussian military officer, leading role in the American Revolutionary War) 1
Teall, Jethro Justinian, 1849-1924 (geologist) 1
The Geological Museum. Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain). Museum of Economic Geology (1835- ) (Jermyn Street, London) 1
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