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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.

Scope and Contents 1. Autograph letter signed from Christian von Bunsen to Leornard Horner, dated 5 August 1858: "Welcome in Germany! I was afraid you had gone to Hekekiah and Sesustesen instead of my dear country, and am happy to know you so near. You threaten to overthrow the balance of the minor states however, by all settling in such numbers in one Dukedom only: and as I ever not wish you to separate, we might hope you would put up headquarters for a week or two at Heidelberg where there are plenty of...

Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from Francis Leggatt Francis, [London], Belgrave Place, 31 October 1820, to Leonard Horner in Edinburgh: “My dear Sir. I am this moment returned from Derbyshire and find that Mr. Cunningham has already answered your enquiries respecting the conveyance of the Bust. I hope it has long ere this reached you in safety. With respect to the other enquiries of your letter – My normal price is one hundred guineas for the Bust, and as you have all along treated me with so much...

Scope and Contents Autograph letters signed from Henry Cockburn to Katharine Murray Lyell, with whom Cockburn seems to have been on very friendly terms.1. Letter dated 5 October 1845: "Thanks for your two letters. I can scarcely tell you how I am relieved by what you say of Mrs Bellen [?]. Long may she be preserved to her friends & family. – You seem to be leading a very pleasant life at least no life is ever unpleasant to me, in which I am let alone. Nevertheless, I wish Leonard was in any...

Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed, in French, from Victor Cousin to Leonard Horner, with thanks for the translation and publication of his Journal d’un voyageur en Holland on the Dutch education system. Cousin mentions the English editor and linguist Sarah Austin (1793-1867) who had translated his previous report on education in Prussia in 1834 and thus introduced it to Britain and the United States. Cousin lets Horner know that he read his introduction to the...

Scope and Contents Three autograph letters signed from William Gladstone to Leonard Horner.1. Letter dated 17 May 1843, from 13 Carlton House Terrace: "I beg to return you my best thanks for your kindness in sending me a copy of your valuable pamphlet on the employment of children. I have perused it with great interest [...]".2. Letter dated 21 February 1861, on stationery with letterhead "11 Downing Street, Whitehall"): "I much regret to find myself unable to comply with your request....

Scope and Contents 1. Autograph letter signed ("Morpeth") from William George Howard, 8th Earl of Carlisle to Leonard Horner, dated 30 June 1840, Castle Howard [North Yorkshire]: "I am afraid my answer cannot be quite as definite as you might wish. My Father does not seem to remember very well whether he wrote the inscription entirely, but he says he certainly was concerned in the composition, which may have been arranged with other co-adjutors at Holland House [...]".2. Autograph letter signed...

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This is an autograph letter signed from Leonard Horner to [Samuel Birch], dated 18 August 1861, Bury St Edmonds. The letter relates to the hypothesis that burnt bricks were known in Egypt before the time of the Romans, which Birch, Lyell and Horner defended against Archdeacon John Pratt.

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Autograph letter signed from Stephen Lushington to Leonard Horner, dated 9 June 1843: “I saw Ld. [...] yesterday & the result is, as you anticipated, that there is no real difficulty seen [?] as to the lots. I have informed the [?] sellers how the matter stands. On Monday I am to see Ld. John. If the Committee is to give up the Vote all may be satisfactorily arranged [...]”.

Scope and Contents 1. Autograph letter signed from James Mackintosh to Francis Horner, dated 12 December 1814: “On receiving your letter yesterday my first thought was to request you to call on Lady Mackintosh that she might read to you what I had written when the spontaneous communications of the duke of Wellington were fresh in my recollection. But on farther reflexion both on the unspeakable importance of the subject & on the just authority of your opinion I resolved to request an interview with him...