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<For Memoranda>

C&S                                               Dahabeah "CHEOPS"
Cook’s Nile Service                       Above Amarna, Jan.3, 1923

My dear Carter:-

          I know you must be up to your neck in work 

and my sole excuse for troubling you now is 

this. I have just received a cable from 

HARPERS MAGAZINE in New York, asking for an 

account of your remarkable discovery. Now 

Harpers is the oldest and best-known maga-

zine in America, and is conducted ona^sic high 

plane. A reliable account of your discovery 

ought to appear in a^sic such a periodical in 

America. It is inthe^sic interests of research 

in Egypt a desirable thing for all of us that 

this should be done. It is by proper promulga-

tion of Egyptian discovery, and especially this 

of yours, that funds for such study, and for the 

publication of such things as your beautiful 

plates of colored hieroglyphs will be obtaina-

ble. In accordance with your permission to 

"write what I liked", I cabled Harpers I would 

do it.

          Now of course they will need photographs, 

which they will publish with the finest mod-

ern skill. Whatever you would like to see publ/<->

lished in this special way will do valuable 

missionary work. I will appreciate it if you 

will kindly authorize Burton to send me the 

prints you approve, with memorandum of expense-