Notebook No.130, 10 January 1846-20 January 1846
Item — Box: Lyell-temp-box 5
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/130
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains notes about slave religion, dances, festivities, and Lyell's observations of the lives of enslaved people in Georgia. This is interspersed with geological observations, lists of boxes sent and received of specimens, and cross section illustrations of landscapes. This notebook is mostly written in pencil. The index is located at p. 113-117, and is in pen.
Contents
- Unitarianism, Abolitionism
- p. 4
- List of 'Boxes Sent'; shells, specimen
- p. 5
- Observations, notes titled 'Negro'
- p. 6
- Observations, notes titled 'Negro Religion'
- p. 7
- Observations, notes titled 'Baptist Negroes'
- p. 10
- Observations, notes titled 'War'
- p. 11
- Letter to Darwin
- p. 24
- Specimen Illustration
- p. 30
- Observations, notes titled "Negro"
- p. 35-40
- Observations, notes titled '[Gernegan]', clay descriptions
- p. 50
- McKinier Letter, Observations, notes titled 'Negroes'
- p. 56
- Queries Dr. Cotting
- p. 70
- Specimen illustration
- p. 77
- Observations, notes titled 'Randolph Co.'
- p. 78
- Observations, notes titled 'Georgia'
- p. 87
Locations: Hopeton - Macon - Milledgeville, Georgia
Dates
- 10 January 1846-20 January 1846
Creator
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
This series is currently unavailable due to conservation and cataloguing work
Extent
1 volume
59 Leaves
72 folios
Repository Details
Part of the Edinburgh University Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
special.collections.library@ed.ac.uk
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
special.collections.library@ed.ac.uk