Correspondence
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph Letter Signed from Leonard Horner to his daughter Lady Mary Lyell, 31 July 1860
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.
Callcott, Augustus Wall, 4 October [c 1837]; undated
Dickinson, Lowes Cato, 6 July 1895
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 […]”.
Fergusson, James, 9 March 1871, 5 May 1883.
Gibson, John, 25 June [1857], 16 July [no year], 22 August [no year]
Hamilton, Edward, 29 June [no year]
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 [...]”.
Kean, Charles, 19 May 1845; early March 1846; 26 October 1850
Kean, Ellen, [Before 1875]
Kemble, Fanny, 8 [March 1865]; 5 April 1865; 25 October 1885
Merivale, Herman, 19th century
Autograph letter signed from Herman Merivale to the conchologist and botanist Mary Horner Lyell, London (“Colonial Office At 14”), no date: “It will give me very much pleasure to dine with you tomorrow (Tuesday) and the more in family the better as far as I am concerned. Your note did not reach me till today, as I went down on Saturday to pass two nights at my brothers’ in Essex. I will be with you at half past six, unless you should send me a note here to put me off [...]”.