Gardiner MSS Newspaper Cuttings Album 1.39.2.2

They should be ready to start at once
now could you get on with the business for me

<you might> consult Reed or Joyce[.]

I hope to <be> back in a fortnight[.]

Could you enquire^sic the best staff for px[?]/<rime>eval 

fabrics <and paintings on wood etc> I thought collodion[?]

          The papl {papyri} will be kept for you
as I hope you may be able to find something

interesting amongst them natux[?]/<r>ally there

are stacks of inscriptions both Hiro^sic & Hieratic

on boxes, but it would be folly to pretend to know

much even on/<a>bout what one has already seen.

& then there is the further sealed chamber

I dont^sic expect I shall excavate for another 2

years. It will simply be working in a museum

I should think that restoring & prescring[?] & noting

will take all this time. Lacau was so impressed

that he could scarcely speak for some time[.]

For beautiful work & absolute art nothing has

ever been seen comparable to this