Mississippi River (United States)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Letters from Abbot, Henry to Charles Lyell, 10 January 1866 - 8 May 1866
File — Box Box 1.1: Series Coll-203/1 (Lyell 1)
Identifier: Coll-203/1/1
Scope and Contents
Letters from Abbot responding to enquiries from Lyell on the Mississippi Delta. Includes a letter from Humphreys to Abbot.
Dates:
10 January 1866 - 8 May 1866
Notebook No.100, May 1842- June 1842
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/100
Scope and Contents
This red leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes from his travels through Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Cincinnati, Ohio; Marietta, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; and Niagara. Notes are in pencil and ink and are primarily daily journal entries, lists and sketches. The index is located at the back of the notebook. The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the...
Dates:
May 1842- June 1842
Notebook No.135, 1 March 1846 - 6 March 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/135
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes from his travels on the Mississippi River, through Louisiana and New Orleans over a period of 6 days in March 1846. This notebook covers geology and ecology along the Mississippi River, Balize swamp and Pontchartrain estuary around New Orleans, Louisianna. Lyell also takes notes on Creole culture, race relations and politics in this region. Far few people are mentioned, and the notes are mostly observational, and with references to old sources....
Dates:
1 March 1846 - 6 March 1846
Notebook No.137, 13 March 1846-20 March 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/137
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from March 13 to March 20, 1846, while traveling in Natchez, Jackson, Mississippi. Notes are in pencil and ink and include field sketches. The index is written by Mary Lyell and is located in the back of the notebook on pages 109-115. In the index, an X or ? is written in the left margin to mark certain entries.Content warning: Lyell uses his Scientific Notebooks to gather evidence, based on both his own...
Dates:
13 March 1846-20 March 1846
Notebook No.138, 20 March 1846-27 March 1846
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/138
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes from 20th to 27th March 1846, while travelling on the Mississippi River, and considering local environs, particularly interested in the earthquakes at New Madrid, Missouri. The start of the notebook appears to focus on observations of local people and customs - as well as scenery, rather than geology. Notes are primarily in pencil. The index is located at the back of the notebook, is primarily in ink and is in the hand of Mary Horner...
Dates:
20 March 1846-27 March 1846
Notebook No.155, January 1848- May 1848
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/155
Scope and Contents
This black notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s discussions, ideas, and recordings when in London, starting in January 1848 and including some focus on ’Americana’ before his second travels in American was published in 1849. The first pages (and from p 78] are notes on pages and references relating to the other American notebooks - which could be publishing related or organisational. It covers conversations, queries, and discussions he started in America including geological,...
Dates:
January 1848- May 1848