Seven boxes of scientific correspondence (1958 letters) 1870-1909, and a heavily-grangerised copy of Mellard's paper (with additional material) to the Liverpool Geological Society on `Post-Glacial Geology of Lancashire and Cheshire' (TMR.4.1).
The archive was arranged by T.M. Reade's son, Aleyn Lyell Reade, who gave it to the University of Liverpool in 1936.
Thomas Mellard Reade (1832-1909) worked at Liverpool from 1860 as a geologist, architect and civil engineer, laying out the Blundellsands estate in 1868. He wrote extensively on Lancashire geology and was made a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1872. His published writings include The Origin of Mountain Ranges (1886) and The Evolution of Earth
