CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) WHITE PERCY (1852-... Lot n° 1012

[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. WHITE PERCY (1852-1938) English novelist and editor who was appointed as an English lecturer at the Egyptian University in Cairo in 1911. White was a close friend of Carter and collaborated with him to write much of Carter´s The Tomb of Tutankhamen (1922-33). A.L.S., Percy White, three pages, 8vo, Haslemere, Surrey, 19th August 1930, to Howard Carter ( ´My dear Howard´). White states that he had expected to see Carter at the Savile Club ( ´but you did not appear at lunch´) and continues to express his brief and belated thanks to Carter for his hospitality, ´I seem to be always enjoying hospitatlity!.....There was so much to see, & Tewkesbury Abbey stands out in my memory with its peculiar charm´, also mentioning a chaffinch which had fed from his hand and concluding ´I hope your plans are b eing carried out with the least possible annoyance. You have all my sympathy´. VG