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Letter · November 1922
Lord Carnarvon to Howard Carter, on receiving news of the sealed tomb
Written from Highclere on the morning the 5th Earl received Carter’s telegram from Luxor. Within weeks, the two men would stand together at the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
“This was folded inside an unmarked envelope of estate correspondence, it has not been read, so far as we know, since it was filed in 1923.”
The Highclere Archivist
Type
Letter, single leaf, handwritten
Date
14 November 1922
Collection
5th Earl, Egyptian correspondence
Added
This week · digitised at the Castle
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“I can scarcely put down my pen”, extraordinary to read his excitement in his own hand, knowing what came only weeks later.
Note the date, the 14th, so this is his reply to the famous “wonderful discovery” telegram of the 6th. The week’s delay would have been the post from Egypt.