PETRIE WILLIAM FLINDERS: (1853-1942) British Egyptologist,... Lot 1208

PETRIE WILLIAM FLINDERS: (1853-1942) British Egyptologist, a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. A.L.S., Wm. Flinders Petrie, one page, 8vo, Bromley, Kent, 20th July 1886, to Mrs. Fawcett. Petrie thanks his correspondent for their kind invitation, which he has pleasure in accepting ('and also to see our friends whom you mention') and continuing to remark 'As my 79 boxes have not yet come, I am not yet in the full turmoil of work, though there is plenty to be done'. Some very minor, slight traces of former mounting to the verso, otherwise VG The boxes to which Petrie refers may have been associated with his excavation in 1886, whilst working for the Egypt Exploration Fund, at Tell Nebesheh in the Eastern Nile Delta. The site is located eight miles southeast of Tanis and, among the remains of an ancient temple there, Petrie found a royal sphinx, now located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.