51 autograph letters, signed by Lyell

Correspondents include Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) (no. 8), naturalist; Rev Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) (no. 32) about his sermon on the prayer for rain; Miss Sowerby (no. 25); Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), geologist; Sir Henry Edward Bunbury (1778-1860) (no. 15) about his account of the war in north Holland and his work on `Military transactions of the Mediterranean'; Sir John Richardson (1787-1865) (no. 20), Arctic explorer and naturalist, on plants collected on the Mackenzie river, zoology and the voyage on HMS Samarang.

19th century

51 items

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.