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The Journals, or more correctly journal-letters, cover 38 seasons, with a date range of 1880-1 to 1928-9, which cover Petrie’s first season in Egypt (measuring the Pyramids at Giza) through to 1928-9 (Petrie’s excavations at Tell Fara in Palestine). There are approximately 5,000 journal pages.

The earlier handwritten Journals are by Petrie, then following his marriage in 1897, much of the writing was compiled by his wife, Hilda.

• Journal letters
• November 30, 1880, to June 22, 1881.
• Handwritten.
• Petrie's first visit to Egypt commencing with a measurement-survey of the Giza pyramids, which was continued and completed the following season (1881 to 1882).
• Main site: Giza.
• Other sites: Dahshur and Saqqara.

• Journal letters.
• November 6, 1890, to June 15, 1891.
• Handwritten.
• Petrie at Maidum for the whole season excavating and recording the tombs, as well as surveying the pyramid. Petrie assisted by G. W. Fraser and F. J. Bliss. In April 1891, Petrie travels to Greece to visit Ernest Gardner, Director of the British School at Athens, where Petrie is able to confirm that the “Aegean” finds from Gurob were manufactured in Mycenae then exported to Egypt.
• Sites: Maidum (Meydum; Medum).
• Includes several small watercolours of objects.

• Journal letters.
• October 22, 1891, through to April 23, 1892.
• Brief entries for dates between April 24 and October 1, 1892.
• Handwritten.
• Petrie is at Amarna for the whole season mainly excavating in the Great Palace where he uncovered a painted pavement decorated with scenes of animals, birds and vegetation. Subsequently, much of the season was devoted to recording the pavement, as well as sealing it with a tapioca-based solution in order to protect the surface. Petrie was assisted by Howard Carter who was in Egypt for the first time. Petrie's opinion of the 17-year-old fledgling archaeologist is recorded in this journal: "Mr. Carter is a good-natured lad, whose interest is entirely in painting & natural history; he only takes this digging as being on the spot & convenient to Mr Amherst [Carter's sponser], & it is of no use for me to work him up as an excavator."
• Sites: Amarna (el-Amarna).
• Includes several small watercolours of objects.

• Journal letters.
• December 28, 1896, through to March 9, 1897.
• Handwritten.
• Sites: Deshasheh, Bibeh, Beni Mazar.

• Journal letters.
• November 29, 1897, to March 20, 1898.
• Handwritten.
• Site: Dendera.
• Pages 5-12, 19-26, 39-42, 51-58, 89-99, 115-22, 127-30 and 136-9 written by Hilda Petrie.