Content Description This collection consists of two albums compiled by Leonard Lyell, nephew of Charles Lyell and son of Katherine Mary Lyell. The volumes contain letters sent by many leading scientists and scholars of the 19th century to Sir Charles Lyell and others in his family, such as his wife Mary, the elder Charles Lyell, Mary’s father Leonard Horner, and his brother Francis Horner. In both albums, most of the letters are accompanied by a facing photograph or portrait print of the letter’s...

Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery to Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell, and his wife Mary, from 38 Berkeley Square, [London], 8 & 18 May 1899: “Dear Lyell. I really cannot thank you enough. You could not have pleased me more than by giving me this book (of the very existence of which I was ignorant) about one whose memory I so truly revere [...]” (18 May 1899, to L. Lyell, who had sent him the Memoir of Leonard Horner). – In a secretarial hand: “I am much...

Scope and Contents 1. Autograph letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell, [1889]: “I am extremely sorry to have missed you; I leave for Washington at midnight. It is now I fear, too late to ask you for dinner; but will you not come up this evening, at 9.30? Depew and some others whom I would like you to meet will be here; and I can arrange to see you if you go to Washington [...]”. Includes a clipped picture postcard (showing the White House).2. Autograph letter from...

Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from Edward Stanley to Leonard Horner, Knowsley, 29 December 1861: “I thank you for your note and the extract of a speech delivered in the Parliament of Turin which it contained. In what I said at Lyat [?] on the subject of Italy I spoke according to the best of my judgment, and according to the information which was accessible to me: my sympathies are with the Italian people in their wish for a single government. But it appeared to me that we, in this country, were...