BIB_ID
81275
Accession number
MA 3000.71
Creator
Caton-Thompson, Gertrude, 1888-1985.
Display Date
1937 Nov. 30.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Governor and Mrs. Elmer L. Andersen, 1977.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 134 autograph letters, mostly to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, and 20 photographs and prints; items in the collection are described individually in 154 records (MA 3000.1-154).
Summary
Describing her travels; noting that they have not been able to begin their archeological work because it is "inadvisable to try and begin excavations until the end" of "Ramadhan"; lamenting that the area is now so easily accessible by car because the local craftsmen will now put up "ready-made deal horrors" instead of making "gems of beauty" out "of local wood, with local tools"; reporting on Freya Stark's poor health; commenting on Stark's "insane indifference to the quality of her drinking water"; giving details of her working relationship with Stark.
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