Box Lyell Temp Box 3.14
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Manuscript Papers relating to Published Works, c. 1840 - c. 1855
Series — Box: Lyell Temp Box 3.14
Identifier: Coll-203/B18
Scope and Contents
Contains extensive autograph manuscript drafts of texts, with cancellations, revisions and additions, and with illustrative plates and maps:
1. 'On the Geology of some parts of Madeira' by Sir Charles Lyell. Notes on text about Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Index to Notebook 195.
2. Original packaging 'Original Geological MS Notes of Sir Charles Lyell (Lady Lyell preserved these - as she was asked at times for autographs, and as time advances, they may be still more valuable)'....
Dates:
c. 1840 - c. 1855
Ephemera relating to American Tour, 1840s
Series — Box: Lyell Temp Box 3.14
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