Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Klapka, Georg, 1 June [no year]
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/36
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from Georg Klapka to Lady and Sir Charles Lyell, in which he presents his request to them and is very sorry that by his departure for Paris he is prevented from having to be the honour of waiting upon them to morrow night”. Dated 1 June [no year]. Includes an engraving portrait of Klapka.
Dates:
1 June [no year]
Lawrence, Abbot, 5 February 1850
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/38
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from Abbot Lawrence to Sir Charles Lyell, dated 5 February 1850, Piccadilly, London: "I need not say to you that I am greatly obliged for your kind note. If I were in condition to dine out, I should avail myself of the honor and the pleasure of your invitation. I wish very much to meet the persons composing your society. I have not yet ventured to walk out, but I drive every day. My health is improving rapidly, and I hope very soon to be able to go among men again....
Dates:
5 February 1850
Letter from Alexis de Tocqueville to Louis Antoine Pagnerre relating to Charles Lyell, 31 December 1850
Item — Box CLX-A-387
Identifier: Coll-1848/22-0048
Scope and Contents
Letter in French from Alexis de Tocqueville to Louis Antoine Pagnerre (Paris publisher of Tocqueville's Democracy in America), relating to the publication of Charles Lyell's book about the USA in French. Tocqueville is asking Pagnerre to publish Lyell's book, saying that Lyell doesn't want any money for it and will provide the engravings plates. Sorrento, Italy, 31 December 1850.
Dates:
31 December 1850
Leveson-Gower, Granville, 24 April 1853; 26 June 1864; no date
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/39
Scope and Contents
Three autograph letters sign from George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, to Sir Charles Lyell. From Bruton Street and Harley Street, London.1. Letter dated 24 April 1853: "It would give Lord Ellesmere [Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere] great pleasure to see you, & I think it desirable that you should do so. I hope he is well again, but he has been laid up for two or three days [...]".2. Letter dated 26 June 1864: "Her Majesty has most graciously consented...
Dates:
24 April 1853; 26 June 1864; no date
Pages of "The London Illustrated News" relating to Charles Lyell, and a letter from Mary Lyell to Mrs Brine, 1864-1873
File
Identifier: Coll-1848/24-0054
Content Description
Two pages from two different issues of the London Illustrated News: title page from the No. 1279 vol. XLV (Saturday, September 24, 1864), showing an illustration of Charles Lyell giving a speech at Bath (caption: "The British Association at Bath: Sir Charles Lyell delivering the presidential address in the Theatre"); and a page from No. 1308, vol. XLVI (11 March 1865) showing a full-page engraved portrait of Charles Lyell.There is also...
Dates:
1864-1873
Pulszky, Ferenc, 1 July 1851 - 23 July 1875
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/57
Scope and Contents
This file consists of five autograph letters signed from Ferenc Pulszky to Lady Mary Lyell and her husband Sir Charles Lyell, sent from Bayswater and Highgate (London), Turin, Budapest, and dated 1 July 1851, 23 June 1857, 18 March 1861, 19 February 1863 and 23 July 1875. Also includes an oval photographic portrait on a larger carrier.1. Letter from Ferenc Pulszky to Charles Lyell, dated 1 July 1851: "I enclose a letter of Mr Mazzini [i. e. the Italian politician and freedom...
Dates:
1 July 1851 - 23 July 1875
Ryan, Edward, 3 September 1854 - 30 August 1872
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/62
Scope and Contents
This file consists of four autograph letters signed from Edward Ryan to Charles Lyell and Mary Horner Lyell. Brighton, Kensington and Bannouth, 3 September 1854, 9 March 1857, 27 December 1859 and 30 August 1872. With a portrait photograph mounted on cardboard carrier.The letter sent to Charles Lyell concerns the appointment of a naturalist for the 1860 China expedition possibly desired by Charles Darwin and Lyell. Edward Ryan expresses difficulty in obtaining the required...
Dates:
3 September 1854 - 30 August 1872
Stanfield, Clarkson, 8 May [before 1867]
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/64
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from Clarkson Stanfield to Sir Charles Lyell, dated 8 May [no year]: "Absence from Town has prevented my earlier receiving and answering your note of the 6th. I now hasten to say that I shall be most happy to see you here any morning next week that may suit your own convenience. Tomorrow morning if you please after ten o’clock will be as convenient a time and hour as I can appoint. [...]". The identification of the recipient with Sir Charles Lyell is based on a...
Dates:
8 May [before 1867]
Stockmar, Christian Friedrich Freiherr Von, 30 November 1848
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/66
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from Christian Stockmar to Sir Charles Lyell, dated 30 November 1848, [London]: "In answer to your kind invitation for the 7th of Dec. I lose no time to state that I am already engaged for that day to dine with Dr. Holland [...]".
Dates:
30 November 1848
Tindal, Nicholas Conyngham, 11 March 1838; 7 Feb. [no year].
File
Identifier: Coll-1989/68
Scope and Contents
1. Autograph letter signed from Nicholas Tindal to Sir Charles Lyell, dated 11 March 1838, Bedford Square [London]: "I am sorry we missed each other, when we must both have called for the same purpose. I send you my proxy paper for the Yorkshire Schools, properly signed by me; but I will trouble you to put in the name of the proxy, and also the proper figure apart the boys name; for there is something a little obscure in the two last lines of the N. B. which I had rather leave to the...
Dates:
11 March 1838; 7 Feb. [no year].