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Evans, Peter : Papers relating to the Evans, Lees and Grant families
- Date
- 1841-1977
- By
- Evans, Peter, active 1994
- Reference
- MS-Group-0328
- Description
The volumes consist of diaries, notebooks and collected newspaper clippings of Eyre Evans, who wrote and lectured on temperance and other social issues. Correspondence and shipboard diaries of members of the Lees family, ca 1869-1876 and genealogical notes and newspaper cuttings relating to members of the Grant family, paricularily the Countess of Seafield, ca 1870-1960.
Quantity: 39 volume(s). 13 folder(s). 1.01 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Holographs, printed matter and typed transcripts (some photocopies)
Transfers: To Photographic Archive - 1 photograph album (PA1-q-568).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 39 volume(s), 13 folder(s), 1.01 Linear Metres, Diaries, Notebooks, Clippings, Speeches, Family histories, Scrapbooks, Personal correspondence, Manuscripts, Holographs, printed matter and typed transcripts (some photocopies)
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Eyre Evans - Life's realities in the motherland
Date: 1903-1905, 1912
From: Evans, Peter : Papers relating to the Evans, Lees and Grant families
Reference: MSX-3985
Description: Evans's reflections and opinions on England, written in 1912 about the years 1903 to 1905. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph
Eyre Evans - Home rule for Ireland
Date: 5 Jun 1913
From: Evans, Peter : Papers relating to the Evans, Lees and Grant families
Reference: MSX-3983
Description: Essay on the question of Home rule for Ireland. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph
Eyre Evans - Farming notes and commonplace book
Date: Mar 1869-1871?
From: Evans, Peter : Papers relating to the Evans, Lees and Grant families
Reference: MSX-3976
Description: Farming notes contain hand-written pieces and newspaper clippings on a variety of farming topics, as well as six plant cuttings, pressed into the volume. The remainder of the volume consists of newspaper clippings, largely about local affairs, although not exclusively so - there are also poems and pieces on overseas stories. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph and printed matter
Eyre Evans - Wayside jottings
Date: 1912
From: Evans, Peter : Papers relating to the Evans, Lees and Grant families
Reference: MSX-3987
Description: Volume details Evans's impressions and experiences on his return to England after thirty years in New Zealand Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph
Eyre Evans - Talk on a trip to Sheffield
Date: n d
From: Evans, Peter : Papers relating to the Evans, Lees and Grant families
Reference: MSX-3978
Description: Written version of a speech given by Evans discussing a trip to Sheffield he went on while in England. The volume also contains a draft version of a letter to a newspaper on rural England. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph
Eyre Evans - Home rule for Ireland
Date: n d
From: Evans, Peter : Papers relating to the Evans, Lees and Grant families
Reference: MSX-3984
Description: Essay on the issue of Home rule for Ireland, signed `an Irish Protestant'. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph
Eyre Evans - Life's realities in the motherland
Date: 1912
From: Evans, Peter : Papers relating to the Evans, Lees and Grant families
Reference: MSX-3986
Description: Reflections and opinions on England. The volume also contains a draft of `Wayside jottings'. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph
Eyre Evans - An interesting incident in my travels through Ireland
Date: n d
From: Evans, Peter : Papers relating to the Evans, Lees and Grant families
Reference: MSX-3980
Description: Volume contains two stories. The first is subtitled `An Irish yarn concerning the Rev Maxwell of Newry told to Eyre Evans by his friend Dr Crossle'. The second is titled `The Narrow minded man', about an experience Evans had while in Cornwall, England. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph
Eyre Evans - Temperance papers written for the Oamaru Blue Ribbon Army
Date: n d
From: Evans, Peter : Papers relating to the Evans, Lees and Grant families
Reference: MSX-3979
Description: Volume consists of thirteen essays written for the Oamaru Blue Ribbon Army on the subject of temperance. Also included is a draft of a letter to a newspaper on the same subject. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph
Eyre Evans - Stray thoughts for stray readers, volume 19
Date: 1911
From: Evans, Peter : Papers relating to the Evans, Lees and Grant families
Reference: MSX-3960
Description: Volume contains clippings from English and New Zealand newspapers on a variety of contemporary social and political issues. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs and printed matter