Lost & Found: 13. David Christopher Davies

Abstract

A case of multiple serendipity has allowed the fate of the Davies collection to be partly uncovered. On a recent visit to a mining historian friend David E. Bick, Pound House, Market Square, NEWENT, Glos; he told me, when Davies name was mentioned, that he had just purchased about 80 letters written by Davies and his eldest son G. Christopher Davies who was a lawyer in Norwich to William Whitwell, F.G.S. from circa 1865 to circa 1890. • In one of these from Christopher Davies dates January 24 1887 is the following paragraph. "My father's fossils were not sold at the sale [this must refer to a house sale after...