A signed autograph letter by A. C. L. Carlleyle (born Archibald Campbell Carlyle; 1831–1897) an English archaeologist to John Henry Rivett-Carnac (1839-1923), dated 1879 April 23 near Chapra, India.
A signed autograph letter by A. C. L. Carlleyle (born Archibald Campbell Carlyle; 1831–1897) an English archaeologist to John Henry Rivett-Carnac (1839-1923), dated 1879 April 23 near Chapra, India. The very lengthy 84-page-long letter concerns various anthropological questions including modifying the shapes of the head of infants, discussion of the mystic symbol “called the ‘Thor’s Hammer’,” and practices in traditional Indian medicine. Carlleyle was assistant to Sir Alexander Cunningham, Director of the Archaeological Survey of India, a still existing government agency in Janpath (New Delhi), and handled the Agra region for the Report of 1871-72. Earlier he discovered paintings on the walls and ceilings of rock shelters in Sohagighat, district Mirzapur, was also the first to claim a Stone Age antiquity for these, and made many other important contributions to archeology in India.
