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|    Martin Beavis to lorrainew...@gmail.com    |
|    Re: Howard Carter - Family Tree    |
|    09 May 18 10:25:01    |
      From: mjsbeavis@gmail.com              On Monday, 7 May 2018 20:38:55 UTC+1, lorrainew...@gmail.com wrote:       > I used to look after edwin carter he had a telegram from Howard carter       saying that he had found king tuts tomb              Shortly after Howard Carter's death his niece Miss Phyllis Walker deposited       all his personal papers in the Griffith Institute Archive at Oxford, where I       recently had the privilege of viewing Carter's daily journal. On opening       Tutankamun's tomb Carter is        famously alleged to have told Lord Carnarvon that he saw "wonderful things"       but his journal actually reads "when Lord Carnarvon said to me 'Can you see       anything'. I replied to him 'Yes, it is wonderful'".       Carter's papers have been transcribed and scanned and may be viewed online at       http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/discoveringTut/              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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