Letters from Evans John, to Charles Lyell, 17 May 1862-18 October 1872
Scope and Contents
This series is split into 5 folders, and Lyell summarises the letters as:
Folder 1
1) 'Evans, ice-chisels-difference of weapons at St Acheul & Abbeville'
2) 'Evans, J. Stan hatchet Northhmptn, Sept 27 1862' Includes a drawing of the tool
3) 'Evans, John Jaw & teeth of Archaeopteryx, Jan 16 1863'
4) 'Evans, John Feb 18 1863, Errata 'Antiquity of Man' flint tools & Icklingham'
5) Summerhouse Hill hatchet, sketch of, [includes] Wyatt's description of same [2 letters] 7 and 10th March 1863
6) 'Evans, March 22 1863 Cyrena flumma in upper beds, Clacton. Elephant - Icklingham'
Folder 2
1) Discussion of the discovery of ancient British coins in Britain and whether there have been any. Also includes a drawing of the foundations of a hut, found near to where the flints were found, which Evans will excavate.
2) 'Evans, J. Human jaw spurious? & forged flint tools at Moulin Quignon Abbeville sold to Boucher de Perthes, April 16 1862'
3) 'J. Evans May 25 1863 Flint hatchet of antique type at Teynham, Kent'
4) 'Evans, Abbeville jaw - Balance of two kinds of evidence - May 27 1863, 2 letters Moulin Quignon'
5) 'John Evans enclosing copy of Keeping's letter on Abbeville forged flints found by him, June 18 1863'
6) 'Evans, Icklingham forged flints, July 1 1863'
7) 'J. Evans Quatrefages & Moulin Quignon. Prigg & prismetic flints of Icklingham, July 1863'
8) ' J. Evans, visit to Mons & Toilliez' flint tools not of drift period, Aug 8 1863'
Folder 3
1) 'Evans, Moulin Quignon jaw Keeping's repost, '63'
2) 'J. Evans 3rd Ed Antiquity. Christy's 800 Somme Valley flints, '63'
3) 'Evans on grey weathers [Sarsen stone] in Hants tool - bearing gravel [on position where gravel was found in relation to the stones], March 5 1864'
4) 'John Evans Human bones of Moulin Quignon, July 25 1864' and added in a different ink 'too many now found to be genuine'
5) 'Evans, Lartet, (author of term) [encircled fact], Reindeer Period. Aug 7 1864.[and agin added in different ink] References to Lartet Irish Elk not of Reindeer Period'
6) 'Evans list of museums to which Jubbulpore, India flints sent, March 30/65'[sent to Hartley Instituion, now University of Southampton, and with list already sent to: Society of Antiquarians; Jessmyn Street Museum; Society of Arts, Scotland; Royal Irish Academy; Salisbury Museum; York Museum; Montrose Natural History Society; Copenhagen Museum Stockholm].
7) 'J. Evans Nilsson's Stonehenge, Kents hole Abbeville type of flint hatchet, May 3/65'
8) 'Evans, John on Lubbock's note Sept 14 1865'
9) 'J. Evans, Kitchen - middens of Roman period 27 Sept 1865' [actual text relates to collection of Flower of Croyden and reads Kjökken-Mödding in Herm'].
Folder 4
1) 'J. Evans Paris Exhibition implements, July 1867'
2) Letter written in French and signed by Houzeau de Lehaie [includes drawings]
3) Letter written in French and signed by Houzeau de Lehaie
4) 'J. Evans returning de Lehaie's letters on Mons archaeological excavation, Jan 20 1867'
5) 'Evans Dec 13 1865, Thetford flints of old type & E. Primigenous.Jubbulpore & Captain Ryder written to'
6) 'Evans, Oct 13/65, Graham's Town flakes. & [Kent's?] Cavern photographs' [refers to offer by Mr Markie]
Folder 5
1) 'Evans, Scottish Antiquarian Society, Oct '72'
2) 'Evans, Oct 6 1872, Doubts as to Calofornian [sic Californian] Implements'
3) 'Evans, April 1872. Instructions for visiting Aurigniac
4) ' Evans, Flint imps [sic implements] in gravel at Southampton 180 ft above present river - Oct 13 1869'
5) 'Mr Evans, 28 Oct 1868, On Revd Harry Jones, Bardonmere, Flint hatchet and pottery'
6) 'John Evans. Flint implement in the upper Thames gravel at Hackney - Sept 23 1868'[with drawing]
7) 'Evans July 6th/68 Age of Santorini village [returns Fougerie and Brine's letters] & quartz implements of the Madras laterite' [response to Bruce Foote's paper]
8) 'Evans Feb 12 1868, Flint implements of foreland gravel, found by Mr Codrington. Isle of Wight. "
Dates
- Creation: 17 May 1862-18 October 1872
Creator
- Evans, Sir John, 1823-1908 (archaeologist and numismatist) (Author, Person)
Language of Materials
English
Full Extent
5 folders (37 letters, 33 envelopes, 2 drawings )
Processing Information
Summarised by Bethany Lawson, and catalogued by Pamela McIntyre, Strategic Projects Archivist March 2025.
Subject
- Lyell, Sir Charles, 1797-1875 (1st Baronet | Scottish geologist) (Recipient, Person)
- de Perthes, Jacques Boucher, 1788-1868 (French archaeologist and antiquary) (Person)
- Prigg, Henry, 1838-92 (English local antiquarian, author of "The Icklingham Papers") (Person)
- Nilsson, Sven, 1787-1883 (Swedish zoologist and archaeologist) (Person)
- Lehaie, Jean-Charles Houzeau de, 1820-1888 (Belgian astronomer and writer ) (Person)
- Toilliez, Albert, 1816-1865 (Engineer,,collector of archaeology specimens, Mons, France) (Person)
- Quatrefages , A. de (Armand de), 1810-1892 (French biologist) (Person)
- Keeping, Henry, 1827-1924 (Geologist, fossil collector, Curator Sedgewick Musem) (Person)
- Christy, Henry, 1810-1865 (English banker and collector, who left his substantial collections to the British Museum) (Person)
- Flower, John Wickham, 1807-1872 (English geologist) (Person)
- Jones, Harry, Reverend, 1823-1900 (Geologist and travel writer) (Person)
- Brine, Lindesay, 1834-1906 (English explorer and ethnographer) (Person)
- Foote, Robert Bruce, 1834-1912 (British geologist and archaeologist) (Person)
Repository Details
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