Scope and Contents
Series I, Daniel and Samuel Lysons , is located in Boxes 1-2 and contains letters by and to both Lysons brothers, mostly concerning antiquities and their publications; copies of the correspondence of Samuel Lysons with Hester Lynch Piozzi and of portions of his diary; and other materials concerning his life in the hand of Lindsay Fleming.
Series II,Lysons Family Letters to Lindsay Fleming , is housed in Box 3 and consists of letters from various descendants of Daniel Lysons (1762-1834) to Lindsay Fleming in response to his research inquiries.
Series III,Other Lindsay Fleming Papers , is housed in Box 4 and contains Fleming's research correspondence with other scholars, including Roland Austin, R. W. Chapman, and Wilfred Merton; other research material, including a family tree of Lysons descendants; and auction catalogs related to sales of Lysons property, including the 1948 sale of Daniel Lysons's library.
Dates
- 1789-1964
Creator
- Fleming, Lindsay (Collector)
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Extent
1.67 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
DANIEL LYSONS, 1762-1834
Lysons's major work is The Environs of London, being an Historical Account of the Towns, Villages and Hamlets within twelve miles of that Capital (1792-1796). With his brother Samuel, Lysons began Magna Brittania, being a concise Topographical Account of the several Counties of Great Britain (1806-1822), but after the first six volumes, covering the counties from B to D, Samuel died and the project was discontinued. Daniel Lysons also contributed views and illustrations to other works and published several pamphlets on religious and historical subjects.
SAMUEL LYSONS, 1763-1819
Lysons engraved all 156 plates for Reliquae Britannico-Romanae (1801-1817), as well as the plates for Views and Antiquities of the County of Gloucestershire (1791) and A Collection of Gloucestershire Antiquities (1803). He published several other works, including "An Account of the Remains of a Roman Villa Discovered at Woodchester in the County of Gloucestershire" (1815).
Processing Information
- Antiquarians -- Great Britain
- Carlisle, Nicholas, 1771-1847
- Coxe, William, 1747-1828
- Engravers -- Great Britain
- Engravers -- Great Britain
- Engraving -- Great Britain
- Fleming, Lindsay (Collector)
- Great Britain. Public Record Office
- Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830
- Lysons, Daniel, 1762-1834
- Lysons, Samuel, 1763-1819
- Penrose, Thomas, 1742-1779
Creator
- Fleming, Lindsay (Collector)
- Title
- Guide to the Lysons Family Collection
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- by Diane J. Ducharme
- Date
- January 2002
- Description rules
- Beinecke Manuscript Unit Archival Processing Manual
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
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