Letter from Edward Hawkins
Reference code
SAL/01/02/31/11
Title
Letter from Edward Hawkins
Level of description
item
Scope and content
Requesting to present a dozen chessmen and a buckle discovered that summer on the Isle of Lewis.
A handwritten annotation on the letter states that these were exhibited.
They are noted as having been exhibited at the Society in the minutes of 8th December 1831: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.036.043
Later referenced in an article by Frederic Madden published in Archaeologia Vol. 24, 1832, pp.203-291: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/FD8F4A078B62E034CF87D2FD808BD59E/S0261340900018683a.pdf/vii_historical_remarks_on_the_introduction_of_the_game_of_chess_into_europe_and_on_the_ancient_chessmen_discovered_in_the_isle_of_lewis_by_frederic_madden_esq_frs_in_a_letter_addressed_to_henry_ellis_esq_frs_secretary.pdf
The buckle is in the collection of the British Museum:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1831-1101-145
The chessmen are currently displayed at both the British Museum:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/search?title=The%20Lewis%20Chessmen
And the National Museum of Scotland:
https://www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-collections/collection-search-results?entry=21739
A handwritten annotation on the letter states that these were exhibited.
They are noted as having been exhibited at the Society in the minutes of 8th December 1831: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.036.043
Later referenced in an article by Frederic Madden published in Archaeologia Vol. 24, 1832, pp.203-291: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/FD8F4A078B62E034CF87D2FD808BD59E/S0261340900018683a.pdf/vii_historical_remarks_on_the_introduction_of_the_game_of_chess_into_europe_and_on_the_ancient_chessmen_discovered_in_the_isle_of_lewis_by_frederic_madden_esq_frs_in_a_letter_addressed_to_henry_ellis_esq_frs_secretary.pdf
The buckle is in the collection of the British Museum:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1831-1101-145
The chessmen are currently displayed at both the British Museum:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/search?title=The%20Lewis%20Chessmen
And the National Museum of Scotland:
https://www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-collections/collection-search-results?entry=21739
Creator
Hawkins, Edward (1780-1867), numismatist, antiquary and Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum