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NON-SCIENTIFIC correspondence of Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., Superintendent of the Natural History Departments of the British Museum 1856-1883, with occasional draft replies in Owen's hand, circ. 1838-1889. Prefixed are a few earlier letters (from 1817) chiefly addressed to Owen's father-in-law, W. Clift, naturalist. The names of the writers are given in the Index. Among them are:--

John Abernethy (to Clift). Sir William George Armstrong. Alexander Bain. Richard Doddridge Blackmore. Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Thomas Carlyle, and his wife. Charles Dickens. Michael Faraday. James Anthony Froude. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt. Thomas Chandler Haliburton. George Payne Rainsford James. Charles Kingsley. George Henry Lewes. David Livingstone. James Russell Lowell. Richard Cockle Lucas. Thomas Babington Macaulay. Sir William Martin, Chief Justice of New Zealand, and his wife. John Lothrop Motley. Sir James Paget. Sir Hercules Robinson. Martin Farquhar Tupper. Samuel Warren. Charles Waterton.

Ff. 677. Bound in two volumes. Presented by Charles Davies Sherborn, to whom they were given by Sir Richard's grandson, Rev. Richard Startin Owen.

Scope & Content:

Sir Richard Owen, KCB; naturalist: Correspondence (non-scientific): circ. 1838-1889.

includes:

f. 1 John Abernethy, surgeon: Letter to W. Clift: 1817.
ff. 4, 6 John Thomson, surgeon, of Edinburgh: Letters to W. Clift: 1822, 1824.
f. 8 James Wardrop, surgeon: Letter to W. Clift: 1825.
f. 9 Eugenius Roche, journalist: Letter to Miss Clift: 1825.
f. 11 Eugenius Roche, journalist: Letter to W. Clift: 1825.
f. 13 Eugenius Roche, journalist: Prospectus of his poems: 1829.: Printed.
f. 15 John Abernethy, surgeon: Letter to the Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital: 1828.: Lithogr. facs.
ff. 16-582 passim Sir William Martin, Chief Justice of New Zealand: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1838-1879.
ff. 18-657 passim Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet; surgeon: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1839 -1886.
ff. 23-27, 30, 32, 141, 177, 293 Joseph Toynbee, FRCS: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1841-1853.
ff. 28, 171, 176, 183, 614, 631 Allen Thomson, FRS; biologist: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1841-1884.
f. 35 Dawson Turner, FSA; botanist and antiquary: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1842.
f. 37 Eden Upton Eddis: Portrait of A. Menzies (d.1842 ) engr. after (?): 19th cent.: Engr.
f. 37 Art. Portraits: Archibald Menzies, F.L.S.; engr. after E. U. Eddis (?): 1842.: Engr.
f. 37 Archibald Menzies, d 1842 FLS: Portrait of, engr. after E.A. [? E. U.] Eddis.
ff. 38, 39 Horstead, Norfolk: View of chalk-pit, with pot-stones, at: 1838.
f.40 William Frederick Collard, piano-maker: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1843.
f. 42 George Gisborne Babington, FRCS: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1843.
f. 43 Art. Portraits: Professor Charles Cardale Babington, d. 1895.: n.d.: Photogr.
f.43 Charles Cardale Babington, d 1895 FRS, Professor of Botany at Cambridge: Portrait: n.d.: Photogr.
ff. 44-673 passim Sir Edwin Chadwick, sanitary reformer: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1843-1889, n.d.
ff. 47-668 passim Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st Baronet; Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1843-1888.
ff. 48-593 passim Mary Ann Maxtin, wife of Sir W Martin: Letters to Sir R. Owen and his wife: 1844-1881.
ff. 57, 59 Benjamin Guy Babington, MD: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1846, n.d.
ff. 73, 182, 350 Reverend Adam Sedgwick, FRS: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1846-1856.
f. 87 George Payne Rainsford James, novelist: Letter to Sir R. Owen: n.d.
f. 91 Peter Mark Roget, MD; FRS: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1848.
ff. 135, 163, 164, 170, 178 Alexander Bain, psychologist, logician and writer on education: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1849, 1850.
ff. 137-328 passim John Kenyon, man of letters: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1851-1853, n.d.
f. 138 Michael Faraday, scientist: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1849.
ff. 140, 161, 197, 219, 268, 270, 296, 322, 427 Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, 8th Baronet: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1849-1863.
f. 200 Mary Ella Vyvyan, wife of T H Vyvyan, JP; niece of Sir R R Vyvyan: Letter to Mrs. Owen: 1851 [?].
ff. 204, 447, 449, 468, 551 William Sandys Wright Vaux, Keeper of Coins and Medals, British Museum: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1851-1874.
f. 206 Charles Waterton, naturalist: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1851.
f. 208 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1851.
f. 209 Theophilus Thompson, MD, FRS: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1851.
ff. 216, 280 A- R- Roche: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1851, 1853.
ff. 218, 321, 515 Reverend Foster Barham Zincke, author: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1851-1872.
ff. 221-609 passim William John Thoms, FSA: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1851-1882.
ff. 222, 224, 286 Samuel Warren, novelist: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1851, 1853.
ff. 235, 304 John Timbs, FSA: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1851, 1853.
f. 238 Jane Baillie Carlyle, née Welsh; wife of Thomas Carlyle: Letter to Mrs. Owen: circ. 1842.
f. 242 Edward William John Hopley, painter: Letter to Sir R. Owen: n.d.
f. 244 Art. Portraits: Edward William John Hopley, painter: 1868.: Photogr. from self-portrait.
f. 244 Edward William John Hopley, painter: Portrait of (photogr. from self-portrait): 1868.
f. 253 John Doyle, caricaturist: Letter to Mrs. Owen: n.d.
f. 260 Reverend Philip Bliss, DD; Registrar of Oxford University: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1852.
ff. 262, 302, 305, 307 William Henry Wills, journalist: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1852, 1853.
f. 266 Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet: Letter to Sir. R. Owen: 1852.
ff. 274-278, 312, 313 William Linton, d 1876 painter: Letters to Sir R. Owen: n.d.
f. 284 Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 2nd Baronet: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1853.
f. 301 George Rainey, anatomist: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1853.
f. 310 William Thomson, Curator of the Museums, King's College, London; also of the Natural History département, Crystal Palace: Letter to C. H. Du Bois: 1854.
f. 311 Richard Cockle Lucas, d 1883 sculptor: Letter to Sir R. Owen: n.d.
f. 314 William Thomson, Curator of the Museums, King's College, London; also of the Natural History département, Crystal Palace: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1854.
f. 317 Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1854.
f.323 Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet; KCB; of Wallington: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1855.: Signed.
f.325 Thomas Carlyle, historian; d.1881: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1855.
f.330 Sir William Tite, architect: Letter to Sir R. Owen: [1855-1873].
ff. 334, 355, 381, 429 John Edmund Reade, poet and novelist: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1856-1863.
ff. 336, 338 Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Edinburgh: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1856.
ff. 339, 341, 352, 513, 518 John Blackwood, publisher: Letters to Sir R. 0wen: 1856-1872.
ff. 343, 345, 374, 392, 496, 571 Henry Thomas Liddell, 1st Earl of Ravensworth: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1856-1878.
ff. 349, 358, 425, 480, 487, 505, 507 Sir William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Cragside 1887; inventor: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1856-1871.
ff. 357, 399, 500, 502 Whitwell Elwin, Rector of Booton; Editor, 'Quarterly Review': Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1857-1871.
f. 360 Charles William Shirley Brooks, Editor of 'Punch': Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1858.
f. 362 James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet 1866; MD: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1857.
ff. 364, 592, 606 Reginald Stuart Poole, of the British Museum; Keeper of Coins and Medals: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1858-1882.
f. 369 William George Clark, Shakespearean scholar: Letter to W. Whewell: circ. 1858.
f. 370 b Reverend William Whewell, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge: Letter to Sir R. Owen: circ. 1858.
f. 373 Charles Richard Weld, historian of the Royal Society: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1859.
f. 378 David Livingstone: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1859.
f. 383 Thomas Chandler Haliburton, humorist: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1859.
f. 384 Johanna Maria Lind-Goldschmidt, alias 'Jenny Lind'; singer: Letter to Mrs. Owen: [aft. 1851].
f. 388 John Walter, the third; chief proprietor of ' The Times.': Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1860.
ff. 390, 457, 459, 552, 600, 639 Henry Reeve, CB; Editor, 'Edinburgh Review': Letters to Sir R. Owen: circ. 1860-1884.
f. 404 Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Neville: Letter to Mrs. Bourne: 1862.
f. 406 Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1862.
f. 413 Reverend Augustus Jessopp, historian: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1862.
f. 415 George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1862.
ff. 416, 441 Martin Farquhar Tupper, author: Letters to Sir R.Owen: 1863, 1864.
f. 418 Art. Portraits: Martin Farquhar Tupper, d. 1889.: n.d.: Photogr.
f. 418 Martin Farquhar Tupper, author: Photograph of: circ. 1863.
f. 424 Reverend Charles Kingsley, author: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1863.
f. 426 Charles Dickens, novelist: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1863.
ff. 431, 573 Charles Rieu, Keeper of Oriental Manuscripts, British Museum: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1864, 1878.
f. 435 Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1864.
f.439 Samuel Birch, of the British Museum; Keeper of Oriental, British and Mediaeval Antiquities 1861: Letter to Sir R. 0wen: 1864.
f. 443 Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead; GCMG: Letter to Col. Brine: 1865.
f. 446 Emily Tennyson, wife of Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1865.
ff. 455, 465 Reverend Sir George William Cox, self-styled Baronet, 1877; historical writer: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1866, 1867.
ff. 461, 463 Thomas James Arnold, barrister and author: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1867.
f. 466 Caroline Fox, diarist: Letter to Sir R. Owen: n.d.
ff. 470, 482 James Anthony Froude, historian; d.1894: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1867, 1869.
f. 476 Edward Hayes Plumptre, Dean of Wells: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1867.
f. 478 George Henry Lewes: Letter to Sir R. Owen: circ. 1867.
f. 486 John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1889.
f.491 John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington; Speaker of the House of Commons: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1869.
f. 493 John Lothrop Motley, historian: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1869.
f.494 James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness; inventor: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1871.
f. 503 Edward Thomas Rogers: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1871.
f. 517 Reverend Foster Barham Zincke, author: Obituary notice of: 1893.: Printed.
f. 530 Acton Smee Ayrton, PC; MP: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1872.
f. 533 Augustus Mayhew, writer of plays: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1872.
f. 554 William Allingham, poet: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1875.
f. 563 London, England: Letter rel. to transport of " Cleopatra's Needle " from Egypt to: 1877.
ff. 563, 562 Giovanni di Demetrio, of Alexandria: Letter to Sir R. Owen, rel. to " Cleopatra's Needle," with visiting card: 1877.
f. 591 Mary Carlyle Carlyle, née Aitken; niece of Thomas Carlyle; wife (1879) of her cousin Alexander Carlyle: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1880.
f. 596 Sir George Burrows, 1st Baronet; MD: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1881.
f. 598 James Macaulay, MD, author: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1881.
f. 602 John Ward, FSA: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1882.
f.611 Benjamin Robert Wheatley, bibliographer: Letter to W. W. Cooper: 1882.
f. 613 William White Cooper, FRCS: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1882.
f. 616 Sir Frederic William Burton, Director, National Gallery: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1883.
f. 617 Richard Doddridge Blackmore, author: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1883.
f. 619 Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, née Braddon; novelist: Letter to Sir R. Owen.: 1883.
f. 621 Sir William Howard Russell, journalist: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1883.
f.623 Andrew Crombie Ramsay, geologist; Knight 1881: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1883.
f. 624 Heinrich Schliemann, archaeologist: Letter to Sir R. Owen: n.d.
ff. 625, 646, 651 Sir Edward Augustus Bond, KCB; Principal Librarian, British Museum: Letters to Sir R. Owen,: n.d., 1885.
f. 636 James Russell Lowell, American author and diplomatist: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1884.
ff. 642, 644, 648 William Blackwood, publisher: Letters to Sir R. Owen: 1885.
f. 647 Samuel Laing, the younger: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1885.
f. 652 Lydia Paget, wife of Sir James Paget: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1886.
f. 659 Charles Bennet, 6th Earl of Tankerville: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1886.
f. 662 Charles Samuel Bagot: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1888.
f. 666 Sir William Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1888.
f. 667 Hon Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert, MP: Letter to Sir R. Owen: 1888.

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Start Date:

1833

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1889

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c 1838-1889

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Charles Davies Sherborn, DSc: Presented in: 1920.

Richard, formerly Rev. Richard Startin Owen, grandson and biographer of Sir Richard Owen: Owned.

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Names:

Abernethy, John, surgeon
Acland, Henry Wentworth, 1st Baronet, physician, 1815-1900
Allingham, William, poet
Armstrong, William George, Baron Armstrong of Cragside, armaments manufacturer and industrialist, 1810-1900
Arnold, Thomas James, barrister and author
Ayrton, Acton Smee, PC, MP
Babington, Benjamin Guy, physician and orientalist, 1794-1866
Babington, Charles Cardale, Professor of Botany, Cambridge University, 1808-1895
Babington, George Gisborne, surgeon, 1794-1856
Bagot, Charles Samuel, correspondent of Sir Richard Owen, fl 1888
Bain, Alexander, philosopher and educationalist, 1818-1903
Bennet, Charles, 6th Earl of Tankerville
Birch, Samuel, of the British Museum; Keeper of Oriental, British and Mediaeval Antiquities 1861
Blackmore, Richard Doddridge, author, 1825-1900
Blackwood, John, publisher
Blackwood, William, literary editor and publisher, 1836-1912
Bliss, Philip, antiquary and book collector, 1787-1857
Bond, Edward Augustus, KCB, Principal Librarian British Museum
Brodie, Benjamin Collins, 1st Baronet, physiologist and surgeon, 1783-1862
Brooks, Charles William Shirley, Editor of Punch, 1816-1874
Burrows, George, 1st Baronet, of Cavendish Square and Springfield, physician, 1801-1887
Burton, Frederic William, Director National Gallery
Carlyle, Jane Baillie, née Welsh; wife of Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle, Mary Carlyle, née Aitken; niece of Thomas Carlyle; wife (1879) of her cousin Alexander Carlyle
Carlyle, Thomas, historian, d1881
Chadwick, Edwin, Knight, social reformer and civil servant, 1800-1890
Clark, William George, Shakespearean scholar
Collard, William Frederick, piano-maker
Cooper, William White, oculist, 1816-1886
Cox, George William, Reverend; self-styled Baronet, 1877; historical writer
Demetrio, Giovanni, merchant and numismatist, fl 1869-1877
Denison, John Evelyn, 1st Viscount Ossington, politician and Speaker of the House of Commons, 1800-1873
Dickens, Charles John Huffam, novelist, 1812-1870,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000448885549,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88666393
Doyle, John, alias HB, caricaturist, cartoonist and painter, 1797-1868
Eddis, Eden Upton, portrait artist, 1812-1901
Elwin, Whitwell, clergyman and journal editor, 1816-1900
Faraday, Michael, natural philosopher, scientific adviser, and Sandemanian, 1791-1867
Fox, Caroline, diarist and correspondent, daughter of Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland, 1767-1845
Froude, James Anthony, historian, d1894
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, politician and writer, 1796-1865
Herbert, Auberon Edward William Molyneux, MP
Hopley, Edward William John, painter
James, George Payne Rainsford, novelist
Jessopp, Augustus, schoolmaster and historical writer, 1823-1914
Kenyon, John, man of letters
Kingsley, Charles, Reverend author
Laing, Samuel, the younger
Layard, Austen Henry, GCB, archaeologist and politician, 1817-1894
Lewes, George Henry, of Add MS 39763
Lewis, George Cornewall, 2nd Baronet
Liddell, Henry Thomas, 1st Earl of Ravensworth
Lind-Goldschmidt, Johanna Maria, alias 'Jenny Lind', singer
Linton, William, painter, d 1876
Livingstone, David, explorer and missionary, 1813-1873
Lowell, James Russell, American author and diplomatist
Lucas, Richard Cockle, sculptor, d 1883
Macaulay, James, MD, author
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron Macaulay
Martin, William, Chief Justice of New Zealand
Maxtin, Mary Ann, wife of Sir W Martin
Maxwell, Mary Elizabeth, née Braddon novelist
Mayhew, Augustus, writer of plays
Menzies, Archibald, FLS, d 1842
Motley, John Lothrop, historian
Neville, Edward, Lieutenant-Colonel
Owen, Richard, KCB, naturalist
Owen, Richard, formerly Rev. Richard Startin, grandson and biographer of Sir Richard Owen
Paget, James, 1st Baronet, surgeon
Paget, Lydia, wife of Sir James Paget
Plumptre, Edward Hayes, Dean of Wells
Poole, Reginald Stuart, of the British Museum, Keeper of Coins and Medals
Rainey, George, anatomist
Ramsay, Andrew Crombie, geologist; Knight 1881
Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke, 1st Baronet, Assyriologist and diplomatist, 1810-1895
Reade, John Edmund, poet and novelist
Reeve, Henry, CB, Editor `Edinburgh Review'
Rieu, Charles, Keeper of Oriental Manuscripts British Museum
Robinson, Hercules George Robert, GCMG, 1st Baron Rosmead
Roche, A- R-
Roche, Eugenius, journalist
Rogers, Edward Thomas
Roget, Peter Mark, MD, FRS
Russell, William Howard, Knight, journalist, 1820-1907
Schliemann, Heinrich, archaeologist
Sedgwick, Adam, Reverend FRS
Sherborn ¦, Charles Davies, DSc
Simpson, James Young, 1st Baronet 1866, MD
Sinclair, James, 14th Earl of Caithness, inventor
Strutt, John William, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Tait, Archibald Campbell, Archbishop of Canterbury
Tennyson, Emily, wife of Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
Thompson, Theophilus, MD, FRS
Thoms, William John, FSA; of Add MS 39954
Thomson, Allen, FRS; biologist
Thomson, John, surgeon, of Edinburgh
Thomson, William, Curator of the Museums, King's College, London; also of the Natural History département, Crystal Palace
Thornycroft, William Hamo, sculptor
Timbs, John, FSA; of Add MS 39954
Tite, William, architect
Toynbee, Joseph, FRCS
Traill, Thomas Stewart, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Edinburgh
Trevelyan, Charles Edward, KCB, 1st Baronet of Wallington
Tupper, Martin Farquhar, author
Turner, Dawson, FSA, botanist and antiquary
Vaux, William Sandys Wright, Keeper of Coins and Medals British Museum
Villiers, George William Frederick, 4th Earl of Clarendon, politician, 1800-1870
Vyvyan, Mary Ella, wife of T H Vyvyan, JP; niece of Sir R R Vyvyan
Vyvyan, Richard Rawlinson, 8th Baronet
Walter, John, the third; chief proprietor of ' The Times.'
Ward, John, FSA
Wardrop, James, surgeon
Warren, Samuel, novelist
Waterton, Charles, naturalist
Weld, Charles Richard, historian of the Royal Society
Wheatley, Benjamin Robert, bibliographer
Whewell, William, Reverend Master of Trinity College Cambridge, natural philosopher, 1794-1866
Wills, William Henry, journalist
Zincke, Foster Barham, Reverend; author

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