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SHERBORN AUTOGRAPHS. Vol. XI (ff. 244). Miscellaneous, viz.:-

(1) Papers, 1866-1871, of Adèle Hugo (d. 1915), daughter of Victor Hugo, found by John Locke, banker, of Barbados, in his bank, and presented by his son, W. J. Locke, the novelist, to C. D. Sherborn (cf. Locke's covering letter, 28 Oct. 1891). Apart from a declaration of Victor Hugo's ancestry and estate drawn up at Brussels in May 1866 and signed by his wife Adèle, the papers consist almost entirely of letters addressed to the daughter. The writers are her mother (30 Nov. 1866, dictated), her brother, Francois Victor Hugo (five letters, 15 Aug. 1869-15 May 1871), and her husband, Captain A. A. Pinson (three letters, 12 Aug. 1869-30 May 1871), with whom she had eloped and from whom she finally separated. ff. 1-22; -(2) Letters of scientists to Harry Govier Seeley, F.R.S., geologist; circ. 1860-1902. ff. 23-78;-(3) Letters of scientists to Edwin Tully Newton, F.R.S., geologist; 1866-1900, n.d. ff. 79-244.

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f. 1 William John Locke, novelist: Letters to C. D. Sherborn: 1886, 1891.
f. 3 Genealogies: Declaration of the ancestry of Victor Hugo: 1866.: Fr.
ff. 3-4b Vicomte Victor Marie Hugo,; author: Declaration of his genealogy and estate: 1866.: Fr.
ff. 3-4b Adèle Hugo, wife of Victor Hugo: Declaration of her husband's estate: 1866.: Fr.: Signed.
f. 4b Thomas Maltby, Vice-Consul at Brussels: Certification by: 1866.
f.4b Jules Anspach, Burgomaster of Brussels: Signature to declaration of Victor Hugo's estate: 1866.
f. 5 Adèle Hugo, wife of Victor Hugo: Letter to her daughter Adèle: 1866.: Fr.: Dictated.
ff. 5-21 passim Adèle Hugo, daughter of Victor Hugo: Papers of: 1866-1871.: Fr.
f. 7 Captain Albert Andrew Pinson, husband of Adèle Hugo: Letter to F. V. Hugo: 1869.: Fr.
ff. 9-13,18,19 François Victor Hugo, son of Victor Hugo; writer: Letters to his sister Adèle: 1869-1871.: Fr.
ff. 15, 21 Captain Albert Andrew Pinson, husband of Adèle Hugo: Letters to his wife, Adèle Hugo: 1870, 1871.: Fr.
f. 17 Rothschild and Sons; bankers: Letter to Miss - Idirvan of Barbados: 1871.
ff. 23, 24 Reverend Adam Sedgwick, FRS: Notes for lecture: circ. 1860.
ff. 23-78 Harry Govier Seeley, geologist: Letters to: circ. 1860-1902.
ff. 25, 37 Reverend Adam Sedgwick, FRS: Letters to H. G. Seeley: circ. 1867, n.d.
f. 27 Reverend Edward Samuel Dewick, d 1917 liturgiologist: Letter to H. G. Seeley: n.d.
f. 29 John Jewel Evans, of Brook House, St Neots: Letter to H. G. Seeley: 1866.
ff. 33, 35 Thomas Davidson, palaeontologist: Letters to H. G. Seeley: 1867.
f. 38 Robert James Lee, physician: Letter to H. G. Seeley: circ. 1870.
f.40 Christian Frederik Lütken, Danish naturalist: Letter to H. G. Seeley: 1876.
ff. 42, 45, 49 Edward Drinker Cope, Editor of 'The American Naturalist': Letters to H. G. Seeley: 1886-1889.
f. 51 C. Murray, of Graaff Reinet: Letter to H. G. Seeley: 1889.
f.53 William Guybon Atherstone, of Grahamstown: Letter to H. G. Seeley: 1891.
f.57 J. S. Marais, of Tamboersfontein: Letter to H. G. Seeley: 1892.: Dutch.
f.59 William Ayshford Sanford, president of the Somerset Archaeological Society: Letter to H. G. Seelev: 1894.
f.64 Alphonse Milne-Edwards, French naturalist: Letter to H. G. Seeley: 1894.: Fr.
f.66 Georg Hermann Carl Ludwig Baur, Professor, University of Chicago: Letter to H. G. Seeley: 1895.
ff. 68-70 Ludwig Rütimeyer, of Basel: Letters to H. G. Seeley: 1895.
ff. 71-75 Ernst Van den Broeck, geologist: Letters to H. G.Seeley: 1900.: Fr.
ff. 76, 78 Baron Friedrich Richard von Huene,; geologist: Letters to H. G. Seeley: 1901, 1902.
ff. 79-244 Edwin Tulley Newton, FRS: Letters addressed to: 1866-1900, n.d.
f. 80 Sven Lovén, Swedish zoologist: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1866.
f. 81 Captain Edward Robert Festing, RE: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1871.
ff. 83, 119 Colonel John F. D. Donnelly, RE: K.C.B. 1893. Letters to E. T. Newton: 1872, 1875.
f. 85 Joseph Cundall, of the South Kensington Museum: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1872.
ff. 87, 94, 97, 152, 221 Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1872-1890.
ff. 89, 90, 187 John Whittaker Hulke, surgeon and palaeontologist: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1872-1882.
ff. 91, 106, 109 Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet; geologist: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1872-1873.
ff. 92, 203 Thomas Davidson, palaeontologist: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1873, 1885.
ff. 95, 217, 219 William Kitchen Parker, comparative anatomist: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1873-1890.
ff. 96, 181 Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston, formerly Simpson; geologist: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1873, 1882.
ff. 99, 191b, 193b Thomas Wright, physician and geologist: Letters to E.T Newton: 1873-1883.
ff. 101, 103 Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet; geologist: Letters to T. H. Huxley: 1873.
f. 105 Dallas: Letter to E.T. Newton: 1873.
f. 111 Thomas Charters White, MRCS: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1873.
ff. 112, 175 Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, KCMG; Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1873, 1881.
ff. 114, 116 Frederick George Hilton Price, antiquary: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1873.
f.118 William Carruthers, Keeper of Botany, British Museum: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1873.
f. 120 Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, American geologist: Letter to E.T. Newton: 1876.
f. 121 Frank Rutley, of the Geological Survey of England and Wales: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1876.
f. 123 j. J. Charles, of Belfast: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1876.
ff. 124, 133, 134, 143 Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton, 10th Baronet: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1876-1878.
ff. 126, 131, 137 Henry Vandyke Carter, geologist: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1876-1877.
f. 136 Agnes Crane: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1876.
f.141 Henry Woodward, Keeper of Geology, British Museum: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1878.
f. 145 George Dowker, naturalist: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1878.
f. 146 John Rand Capron, physicist: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1878.
f. 147 Thomas Jesson, naturalist: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1878.
f. 148 Charles Potter, of Liverpool: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1879.
f. 150 Edward Ferrand Astley, MD; of Dover: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1879.
f. 151 James Reid, MRCS; of Canterbury: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1879.
f. 153 Charles Yule: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1879.
ff. 155, 157 Thomas Jeffery Parker: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1879.
ff. 159, 161, 231 Alfred Newton, Professor of Zoology at Cambridge University: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1879-1896.
f.162 George Busk, FRS; surgeon: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1879.
ff. 163, 165 John William Reed, pianoforte manufacturer: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1880, n.d.
ff. 166, 195 John Wesley Judd, geologist: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1880, 1884.
f. 167 William Whitaker, geologist: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1880.
ff. 169, 178-180 John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1881-1882.
f.171 George Shaw, of Benthall Hall, county Shropshire: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1881.
ff. 173, 196 Thomas George Bonney, Secretary, Geological Soc: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1881, 1884.
f.177 Andrew Crombie Ramsay, geologist; Knight 1881: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1881.
ff. 183, 210 Thomas Wakefield, missionary: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1882, 1886.
f.185 Alfred Nehring, German naturalist: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1882.: Germ.
ff. 189, 226, 234 Sir Archibald Geikie, KCB; geologist: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1883-1899.
f.197 Sir Richard Owen, KCB; naturalist: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1884.
f. 198 Reverend Henry Hoyte Winwood, geologist: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1884.
ff. 200, 209 Robert Hunt, FRS: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1884, 1885.
f. 201 John S. Black: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1884.
f.202 Henry William Bristow, geologist: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1884.
f. 205b Thomas McKenny Hughes, Professor of Geology at Cambridge University: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1885.
f. 207 J. R. Wells: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1885.
f. 212 Maurice Hovelacque, French geologist: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1886.: Fr.
ff. 214, 215 William Thomas Blanford, geologist: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1889.
ff. 222, 223 Fanny Maitland: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1890.
f. 225 James Carter, FRCS; FGS: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1894.
ff. 227, 228 Sir Joseph Prestwich, FRS: Letters to E. T. Newton: 1895.
f.232 Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, geologist: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1897.
f. 233 William Cunnington, FGS: Letter to E. T. Newton: 1897.
ff. 235, 237 Thomas Southwell, FZS: Correspondence with E. T. Newton: 1900.
f.239 Robert Fitch, of Norwich: Letter to E. T. Newton: n.d.
ff. 240, 242 Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, KCB; FRS: Letters to E. T. Newton: n.d.
f. 243 Sir Michael Foster, KCB; FRS: Letter to E. T. Newton: n.d.
f.244 Malcolm Poignand, physician: Letter to E. T. Newton: 19th cent.

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Anspach, Jules, Burgomaster of Brussels
Astley, Edward Ferrand, MD; of Dover
Atherstone, William Guybon, of Grahamstown
Baur, Georg Hermann Carl Ludwig, Professor, University of Chicago, fl 1894
Black, John S.
Blanford, William Thomas, geologist
Bonney, Thomas George, geologist, 1833-1923
Bristow, Henry William, geologist
Busk, George, FRS, surgeon
Capron, John Rand, physicist
Carruthers, William, Keeper of Botany British Museum
Carter, Henry Vandyke, geologist
Carter, James, FRCS; FGS
Charles, j. J., of Belfast
Cope, Edward Drinker, Editor of 'The American Naturalist'
Crane, Agnes
Cundall, Joseph, publisher and photographer, 1818-1895
Cunnington, William, antiquary, 1754-1810
Dallas, correspondent of E T Newton, 1873
Davidson, Thomas, palaeontologist and artist, 1817-1885
Dewick, Edward Samuel, clergyman, liturgiologist and antiquary, 1844-1917
Donnelly, John Fretcheville Dykes, Knight, army officer, military engineer and promoter of scientific education, 1834-1902
Dowker, George, geologist, botanist and archaeologist, 1828-1899
Egerton, Philip de Malpas, 10th Baronet, palaeontologist and politician, 1806-1881
Evans, John Jewel, of Brook House, St Neots, 1806-1892
Festing, Edward Robert, army officer and chemist, 1839-1912
Fitch, Robert, archaeologist, 1802-1895
Foster, Michael, KCB, FRS
Geikie, Archibald, Knight, geologist and historian, 1835-1924
Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer, American geologist
Hovelacque, Maurice, French geologist
Hudleston, Wilfred Hudleston, formerly Simpson; geologist
Huene, Friedrich Richard, Baron, geologist
Hughes, Thomas McKenny, Professor of Geology at Cambridge University
Hugo, Adèle, daughter of Victor Hugo
Hugo, Adèle, wife of Victor Hugo
Hugo, François Victor, son of Victor Hugo, writer
Hugo, Victor Marie, author and politician, 1802-1885
Hulke, John Whittaker, surgeon and palaeontologist
Hunt, Robert, scientist and photographic historian, 1807-1887
Huxley, Thomas Henry, scientist
Jesson, Thomas, naturalist
Judd, John Wesley, geologist, 1840-1916,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000082185790,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/35228402
Lankester, Edwin Ray, KCB, FRS
Lee, Robert James, physician
Locke, William John, novelist
Lovén, Sven, Swedish zoologist
Lubbock, John, 1st Baron Avebury, banker, politician, and scientific writer, 1834-1913
Lyell, Charles, 1st Baronet, geologist
Lütken, Christian Frederik, Danish naturalist
Maitland, Fanny
Maltby, Thomas, Vice-Consul at Brussels
Marais, J. S., of Tamboersfontein
Milne-Edwards, Alphonse, French naturalist
Murray, C., of Graaff Reinet
Nehring, Alfred, German naturalist
Newton, Alfred, Professor of Zoology at Cambridge University
Newton, Edwin Tulley, FRS
Owen, Richard, KCB, naturalist
Parker, Thomas Jeffery
Parker, William Kitchen, comparative anatomist
Pinson, Albert Andrew, Captain; husband of Adèle Hugo
Poignand, Malcolm, physician
Potter, Charles, of Liverpool
Prestwich, Joseph, FRS
Price, Frederick George Hilton, antiquary
Ramsay, Andrew Crombie, geologist; Knight 1881
Reed, John William, pianoforte manufacturer
Reid, James, MRCS; of Canterbury
Rothschild and Sons, bankers
Rutley, Frank, of the Geological Survey of England and Wales
Rütimeyer, Ludwig, of Basel
Sanford, William Ayshford, president of the Somerset Archaeological Society
Sedgwick, Adam, Reverend FRS
Seeley, Harry Govier, geologist
Shaw, George, of Benthall Hall, county Shropshire
Southwell, Thomas, FZS
Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner, KCMG, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Van den Broeck, Ernst, geologist
Wakefield, Thomas, missionary
Wells, J. R.
Whitaker, William, geologist
White, Thomas Charters, MRCS
Winwood, Henry Hoyte, Reverend geologist
Woodward, Henry, Keeper of Geology British Museum
Woodward, Horace Bolingbroke, geologist
Wright, Thomas, physician and geologist
Yule, Charles