TAA i.2.3.3

October 2^nd 1925

Arranged about stores & servants for the Season's work.

Have been pestered by correspondents of local and foreign papers who
always {want} more than one can tell. They complain that the proposed
daily or weekly bulletin (as laid down in the Agreement. <to be issued by the Press Bureau>) will not
suffice their wants - they want private interviews and personal details.
This is interesting, in so far that under the original regime they,
one and all, complain that it was not done through the Press Bureau,
and now that they have got this they do not want it! All
this makes me begin to fear that this season's campaign will
not be an easy one from that point of view. However, my
one hope is that I am allowed to carry out the investigation
in a proper & scientific manner and the work not jeopardised
by Press & other curious onlookers.

3^rd

Saw Edgar 11am this morning. He had not yet received
a reply to his cable to M. Lacau, re his representing him
at the Examination of the Royal Mummy.

Saw Lucas. We inspected the Tut.Ankh-Amen exhibits
in the Museum, from the point of view of preservation. 
I think possibly there is a tendency of the Throne
darkening a little and we decided that late next spring
we would treat it with wax which ought not only to
brighten it up, but also help to make a permanent
preservative.

I was horrified to find that the silver stick (fellow
to the gold stick), now exhibited flat, in one of the glass
show cases, was broken in two. This, I was told, was
done by one of the European officials when showing it
to M. Capart of the Brussels Museum. It seems a shame