Gardiner MSS Newspaper Cuttings Album 1.39.1.1
Letter from Lord Carnarvon to Sir Alan H. Gardiner including his account of the discovery, page 1.
Associated with letter Gardiner MSS Newspaper Cuttings Album 1.39.2 (1 December 1922).
© Griffith Institute,
University of Oxford
Most private
My dear Gardiner
I wrote to my wife yesterday & asked her to give you
a message.
The find is extraordinary sav[?] We it is a cache & has been
plundered to a certain extent but even the ancients could
not completely destroy it after some slight plundering the
inspectors shut it again. So far it is Tutankamonsicbed beds boxes & every conceivable thing there is
a box with a few papyri in – the throne of the King the
most marvellous inlaid chair you ever saw –
2 life size figures of the King bitumenisedsic – all sorts of
religious signs hardly known up to date[.] The Kingsic clothing
rotten but gorgeous. Everything is <in a> very ticklish state owing
to constant handlings & openings in ancient times
(I reckon on having to spend 2000£ on preserving &
packnigsic)[.] The most wonderful ushabti in wood of the
King wood portrait head ditto endless staves etc
some with most wonderful work 4 chariots
The most miraculous alabaster vases ever seen