Gardiner MSS Newspaper Cuttings Album 1.39.2.1
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 1.39.1 (28 November 1922).
© Griffith Institute,
University of Oxford
Dec 1. 1922
My dear Gardiner
Since writing to x[?]/<y>ou, you have no doubt seen
the report etc in the Times. There is certainly a
box with a few papyri in them they are not in
rolls but folded like letters & sealed.
But what I have so far found I believe to be little to
what will eventually turn up & I have scarcely x[?]/<op>ened
into a box. This discovery transcends anything that
has ever occurred I believe anywhere – I xxx[?] I
have got Tutankamensic (that is certain) & I believe
the mortal[?] plundering intact, now the point is this
I fancy that for the transportation bolting[?] together etc.
of all this stuff & getting to Cairo it will cost anything
from 3 to 8000£. The Govt here already through
the ajir[?] told me that I shall get a fair share
but what I now[?]sic about are 2 practical restorers
people who can treat wood, gilt work, gesso
& we/<are> able to restore linen leather etc
Papyri out & back even of feather [ 𓂀 ] mouth
certain how & pay which we would decide[?]
on.