TAA i.3.2.73.recto

Drafts

                                            2, PRINCE'S GATE COURT, S.W.7.
                                                     KENSINGTON 6077.

                                                                                                             June 1^st, 1932.

Dear Boodle,

          So many thanks for your interesting 

letter regarding your identification of the woods.

          It would appear that the Ancient Egyptians purposely 

used different woods for the xxx[?] for parts of these shrines, 

which is but <a> natural <feature> in structural woodwork of the 

kind.

          It would be a nice point if one could pin down 

N^o. 253 – from the first (outermost) coffin – which you 

note as being "possibly Juniperus or Cypress"; also the 

wood employed for the tanged arrow 'piles', and 

xxx[?]/<also> the bark employed for decorative purposes.

With regard to the chariot wheel (N^o. 322), which

you note 'probably Elm or Celtis mediteranea', I 

imagine, from a practical point of view, <if there should be a doubt> whichever 

the harder and more durable wood, wood would be

the more probable. For, 

in the construction of so light a wheel as that of the 

Eg. Chariot, the qualities of a wood must have 

been a very important consideration, as in vehicular 

construction today.