Lyell, Sir Charles (1797-1875), geologist

Material, principally correspondence, formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letter Sequence.

1822-1871

57 items

Purchased from: Sotheby's, London, February 1930 (acc.52479), May 1930 (acc.52792), July 1931 (acc.57468), December 1931 (accs.75871 and 75873), February 1932 (acc.76066), July 1932 (acc.65271), November 1933 (acc.67469), April 1934 (acc.66602); Stevens, London, October 1930 (acc.73227), March 1931 (acc.56471 and acc.68133), August 1931 (acc.68232), July 1934 (acc.68350); Huscombe's, July 1931 (acc.67561); Glendining, London, December 1931 (acc.67595), February 1932 (acc.67677), August 1932 (acc.67694), September 1933 (acc.67769), August 1934 (acc.67865), December 1934 (acc.67935), January 1935 (acc.67974), May 1935 (acc.68608), August 1935 (possibly an error for 1934) (acc.67880); presented by Captain Saint, January 1933 (acc.66022); Desgranges, Paris, September 1932 (acc.65659), January 1936, or Glendining, London, c.1932 (accs.69292 and 69294); Charavay, Paris, at an unknown date before 1936 (acc.69220); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection; nos. 41/2 and 54 provenance details not recorded (acc.67430); nos 8 and 11 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800); nos. 7, 43, 44 and 56 no accession details given.

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