D’Hulst to Naville, April 12, 1887
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[1] Royal Hotel, Cairo
[2] April 12th 87
[3] My dear Sir
[4] I have forwarded to-day the box, as
[5] requested to Mr. Petrie at Bedraschein. You
[6] forgot to tell me how you would settle the
[7] bill (three times 36 shillings) with Mr. Petrie,
[8] I suppose it will be best you arrange that
[9] through Mr. Griffith. As I told you I shall
[10] take the boxes over at the same price when
[11] I shall go to Nebesheh. I have seen Mr.
[12] Coghill to-day; I can get rid of part of the
[13] stores for his engineer, as he will have
[14] to take stores.
[15] All what Mr. Petrie required I found
[16] with the exception of one tins in one of the
[17] boxes at Mr. Large’s. I also spoke to Mr.
[18] Large about the bill & he told me: The
[19] boxes of Mr. Petrie & Mr. Griffith had been
[20] given into his charge without that he
[21] had been told <that> they were private property
[22] and as neither of those gentlemen had
[23] an account with him he naturally con-
[24] cluded that the boxes belonged to the Fund
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[1] & he had booked them accordingly. Mr.
[2] Large has promised however to rearrange
[3] our account. I suppose I am right to say
[4] there are only two boxes of Mr. Griffith’s
[5] at Large’s?
[6] I remain My dear Sir
[7] Yours faithfully
[8] Riamo d’Hulst
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Historical notes:
1. El-Badrashein or al-Badrashin
MS source:
Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 2542, f. 227
Dispatches from Egypt 