Part of Collection

Title

Notebook No.130

Creators/Contributors

Rights

Out of Copyright. Free use.

Collection

Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

Production Date

10 January 1846 - 20 January 1846

Shelfmark (Identifier)

Coll-203/A1/130

Catalogue Record

https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/180288

Subjects

• Slavery
• Folk music -- Georgia
• Dance
• Slavery--United States
• Georgia (United States)
• Baptists

Description

This red notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s visit to the United States of America (started in Notebook 121) recording his time spent around Georgia (Hopeton-on-the-Altamaha, Macon, Milledgeville, Savannah, Parramore Hill, Scottsboro, Gordon, and Upatoi creek) with detailed visits to Macon and the surrounding areas. It covers many diverse discussions covering topics of the everyday lives of slaves, slavery, abolition, religion, war, floral and faunal specimens, and geological features and terms. Some key individuals he discussed these topics with include James Hamilton Couper (Planter and Slaver), Joseph LeConte (Physician and Geologist), and John Ruggles Cotting (Geologist). It contains drawings and lists of geological stratigraphy and fossils (e.g., Zeuglodon). The notes are in ink and pencil. The index is located at the end of the notebook from pages 113 with 5 pages. Several of the sections recorded in the notebook appear to be Lyell recording conversations and passages word-for-word, followed by his own interpretation and opinion on what was seen or heard.

Language

eng