274 PLAN FOR EASTER EXCURSION. [1878. 



pation till you are more fully engaged in your ordinary law 

 business. As I have said, the evidence is incomplete, but it 

 was, I believe, at one time complete or nearly so, but many of 

 the important documents were lost in a pocket-book of which 

 my father was robbed many years ago. His cousin, Sir John 

 Prestwich, took up the title, but did not enter it. It is his 

 papers chiefly that we have, and as he or his father was de- 

 scended from, I believe, a junior brother, his collection is more 

 complete in that direction than my father's. All the papers, 

 however, such as they are, I have, and I can place them in 

 your hands to look at and see what could be made of them. 

 As your Aunt Emily is here, I will ask her to take up the tin 

 box with her to South Street, and if your mother could kindly 

 call for it some day she is driving past, I should be much obliged. 

 The books we have at Oxford, where we should be glad to see 

 you at any time ; and I am, your affecte. uncle, 



JOSEPH PEESTWICH. 



I enclose a copy of the best table I was able to make out 

 many years since. 



The death of Mr H. B. Tomkins took place before he 

 had completed his search among the old family papers 

 and registers, and no other steps were taken. 



The following letter gives the route for an Easter 

 excursion, which was afterwards modified : 



J. Prestwich to J. Evans. OXFORD, 17 th March. 



MY DEAE EVANS, I have not yet quite planned the route, 

 but as well as I can make out the points we should visit, it will 

 be about this : 



Paris to Montlugon. Miocene, Granite, and Coal-Measures. 

 Ahun and Lamaraix-les- Mines. Coal-Measures in a Granite 

 basin. Kaolin works. Valley Drift. Deep valley cut 

 through Gneiss and Granite to 



Aubusson. Thence, if there is a road, across the Correze to 

 Ussel. Crystalline rocks. By rail (?) to 



