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46. Briggs (1918): 177, 272.

47. Breasted (1948): 232.

48. Wilson (1964): 142.

49. Petrie (1931): 236.

50. Petrie (1931): 240.

51. Gardiner to Erman, 19 August 1920 and 3 September 1920, quoted in Gertzen (2015): 42 and 44, respectively.

52. Gertzen (2015): 46.

53. Quoted in Gertzen (2015): 45.

54. Evans (1919).

55. Evans (1919).

56. Petrie (1931): 269.

57. Caillard (1935): 226.

58. Wilson (1964): 127.

59. Mansfield (1971): 232.

60. Caillard (1935): 225.

61. All quotes from Cecil (1921); specific quotations are from pages 15, 9, 71, 117, 79 and 272, respectively.

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1. Carter’s journal entry for 26 November 1922, reproduced in Collins and McNamara (2014): 29.

2. Davis (1912): 3.

3. Davis (1912): 3.

4. Maspero (1912): 111–12.

5. Maspero (1912): 123.

6. Adams (2013): 302.

7. In his entry for Who’s Who, Carter claimed to have been born in Swaffham, Norfolk, on 9 May 1873; in fact, he was born in Brompton, London, exactly one year later. It is not clear whether the mistake was accidental or deliberate.

8. Quoted in Drower (1985): 194.

9. Maspero, letter to Naville, 5 January 1900, quoted in Reeves and Wilkinson (1996): 70.

10. Emma Andrews’s diary, 13 January 1903, quoted in Reeves and Wilkinson (1996): 72.

11. Davis (1906): xii–xiii.

12. Emma Andrews’s diary, 17 January 1902, quoted in Reeves and Wilkinson (1996): 70.

13. Telegram from Carter to Cromer, 8 January 1905, illustrated in Reeves (1990): 42.

14. Griffith Institute, Carter archive, VI, autobiographical sketch, quoted in Reeves (1990): 42.

15. Letter from Ferdinand Platt to his wife, Luxor, 22 January 1908, quoted in Wilkinson and Platt (2017): 108–9.

16. Fagan (2004): 686.

17. Sources differ as to whether the accident took place in 1901 or 1903.

18. Fagan (2015): 57.

19. Quoted by Carnarvon’s sister, Lady Burghclere, in Carter and Mace (1922–3), I: 29.

20. Carnarvon to Weigall, quoted in Adams (2013): 169.

21. Lindon Smith (1956): 79–80.

22. Carnarvon to Weigall, 14 April 1907, quoted in Reeves (1990): 48.

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