TAA i.2.1.89

Dec. 3.

Today being for press view, no work was done in the Tomb.

Only four persons vissi/<it>ed the Tomb though the fact that it

would be opened to the press had been published by the

Gov. nearly a fortnight ago. These person[s] were: Miss

Johnson (no paper nominated), H. A. Bradstreet of the

Morning Post, Valentine Williams special correspondent

for Reuter, and a certain E. S. Aldrich (very doubtful)

correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune.

At the Laboratory work on the Chariots was continued, while

Burton made experiments which were unsuccessful on

Autochromes.

Dec. 4.

Weekly holiday

Dec. 5.

The demolishing of the partition wall (between Ante-

Chamber & Sepulchral Chamber) completed and part

of the wooden screen, placed there for protecting the Shrine,

was removed. The lower part of this wall was of the

roughest construction, and one wonders how it remain[ed]

in such good condition during all the years it stood without

showing any signs of falling away from the rock walls . &

ceiling.

The piece cut out of the western most corner of the end

of the Antechamber wall seems certainly to have been

to allow of easy ingress of the larger portions of the Shrine.

Sir Johan[?] {John} Marshall of the India Gov. for Archaeology

lunched with us - and we had a long discussion

regarding Antiquities laws and division of proceeds, Etc.

Now that the partition wall is removed a magnificent

view of the <the> Shrine-within-the-Sepulchre is now can be

seen for the first time properly and the view is magnificent.

Dec. 6.

Removed wooden protective screen covering exposed portion

of the S. E. corner of shrine - placed there while pulling down

the partition wall.

Photographic records taken by Burton of the Shrine as it

stands untouched in the Sepulchral Chamber.

Commenced upon unhanging the folding doors, by raising

the wooden sections of frieze <which acts on this (the E. end) end as the lintel> and cornice, thus freeing the

door pivots from their sockets.

D^r Alexander Scott came & visited both tomb and laboratory.