TAA i.3.2.77

Page number
77
Caption
Note for scientific publication on botanical remains
Date of creation
22 October 1933
Material
Ink
Paper
Measurements
22.8 x 17.6 cm (h x w)
Notes

Handwritten letter from Leonard Boodle to Howard Carter regarding corrections for his report (see TAA i.3.2.2-TAA i.3.2.48) on botanical samples, page 1. 

Transcription

                                                                             Strathmore            1.
                                                                              27 Petersham Road
                                                                             Richmond
                                                                                  Surrey

                                       22 Oct. 1933.

 

Dear Carter,

          Thank you for your letter of the 19th, 

acknowledging receipt of my further notes. 

I hope that you have got rid of your 

cold by now. Colds are in fashion.

          Sorry to trouble you with some further 

corrections, which I think are really the last.

   1. A new sheet enclosed, No. 21a (Sesamum 

sp.) to go after No. 21 (Salix sp.).

   2. On page 6. Instead of:- "but was named at 

the Kew Herbarium as probably a species of 

Chaerophyllum", please alter so as to read:- 

"but was referred with some reservation to the 

genus Chaerophyllum by a member of the 

staff of the Kew Herbarium."

   3. In the sheet, which I sent you to replace the 

paragraph beginning on the last line of page 1, 

please delete:- "M.A., Ph.D." after the name 

"Dr. C. R. Metcalfe."

   4. On page 11, last sentence, instead of:- "The speci-

mens were identified by the late Dr. O. Stopf, F.R.S.",

please alter so as to read:- "The species were