"Trustee Matters: Wellcome Archaeological Research Expenditure to the Near East"

Includes:

corresondence referring to the Lachish Letters and a request by Oxford University Press "to regularise the publication...and to indemnify the publishers in the event of any libel action" (5 May, 1937, G L Moore to Messrs Markby, Stewart & Wadesons);

cutting from Evening Standard (1 January, 1937): "Oldest Alphabetical Writing Revealed on Dagger Find" (Wellcome-Marston Expedition to Lachish);

J L Starkey and T Wilson Parry, "Discovery of skulls with surgical holing at Tell Duweir, Palestine," reprinted from Man (1936), 233-4;

Illustrated London News (3 October, 1936), pp. 571-3, report on discoveries at Lachish;

J L Starkey, "Excavations at Tell Duweir, 1935-1936 (Wellcome Archaeological Research Expedition to the Near East)," reprinted from the Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement (October, 1936) - text of a lecture given at the Wellcome Research Institute, 3 July, 1936;

and correspondence concerning the financing of the Expedition, in the light of Wellcome's death, and copies of letters of appointment of Expedition staff.

Original file reference: LF26/4.

1935-1937

1 file

Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust