File NEWB2/474 - Loret, Victor - correspondence

0.5 cm, 8 letters

Correspondence from Victor Loret (1859-1946) including relating to excavation work at Drah Abou'l Neggah (1898) and research on the olive and moringa (1923).

Includes letter granting permission to the Marquis of Northampton assisted by Newberry and Wilhelm Spiegelberg to excavate at Drah Abou'l Neggah including sketch map of the permitted area, 2 November 1898, and draft letter to Loret relating to the contract and the geographical limits of the excavation.

Also includes telegram from Howard Carter to Newberry stating work had been stopped by the inspector, December 1898.

Note:
MSS 29/31 is also numbered 10
MSS 29/32 is also numbered 14
MSS 29/34 is also numbered 12
MSS 29/35 is also numbered A.183
There is also a telegram without a reference which is numbered 11