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Add MS 88953/4
- Record Id:
- 040-001001203
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001000918
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001202.0x00008e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88953/4
- Title:
- Correspondence of Mervyn H. N. Story-Maskelyne
- Scope & Content:
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Contains correspondence with: Matthew Arnold, the uncle of Story-Maskelyne's son-in-law, H. O. Arnold-Forster; Charles (later Baron) Bowen; Sir David Brewster; William Buckland; John Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough; William (later Sir William) Crookes; Charles Darwin; Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava; Michael Faraday; Henry Fawcett; Jane Forster, the aunt and foster mother of H. O. Arnold-Forster; Sir M. E. Grant-Duff; Asa Gray; George Grote; Sir William Hooker; William Walsham How; Benjamin Jowett; Charles Kingsley; Andrew Lang; Henry George Liddell; Charles Lyell, later 1st Bart.; F. Max Müller; Louis Pasteur; Baden Powell; George (later Sir George) Scharf; Heinrich Schliemann; Mary Somerville; Arthur (later Dean) Stanley; Margaret Story-Maskelyne, Mervyn Maskelyne's mother; William Henry Fox Talbot; Richard Temple, later 2nd Bart.; William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin; John Tyndall; Gerhard vom Rath; and Justus von Liebig. Also contains an exam pass certificate in Story-Maskelyne's name from Wadham College, Oxford.
Also contains letters (1892-1896) to Arthur (later Sir Arthur) Rücker, Mervyn Story-Maskelyne's son-in-law from T. H. Huxley; Joseph (later Baron) Lister; John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh; and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. A letter (1882) from Prof. Henry Smith to Mary Arnold-Forster is pasted on the verso of the card onto which Rayleigh's letter to Rücker is pasted.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001000918
040-001001203 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88953 : Supplementary Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster papers
Add MS 88953/4 : Correspondence of Mervyn H. N. Story-Maskelyne - Hierarchy:
- 032-001000918[0004]/040-001001203
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88953
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 folder
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
German - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1845
- End Date:
- 1900
- Date Range:
- 1845-1900, nd
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Forster, Jane Martha, née Arnold; wife of W. E. Forster, 1821-1899
Maskelyne, Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-, minerologist, politician and photographer, 1823-1911