Dear Mrs Hearst,
Dr Hunt and I have
now completed our edition of Part
II of the Tebtunis Papyri, and
the book will be issued by Mr Frowde¹
of the Oxford University Press in
three weeks from now. The volume
consists of papyri of the Roman
period, together with a long
appendix on the geography of the

Fayûm, and though hardly as
important as a whole Part I, which
consisted of Ptolemaic texts, includes
a number of very interesting papyri.
Apart from the indices, there are
440 pages,² and the remuneration
due to Dr Hunt and myself
jointly is therefore £410. (four
hundred and ten Pounds).³ We should
be very much obliged if you could
kindly pay us this sum as early as

convenient. The work has been spread
over three years.
There still remain to be published
the early Ptolemaic papyri from
mummy cartonnage, which will
form Part III. These have been
mostly unrolled⁴ and in part
deciphered, but we do not expect
to have the volume ready for two
or three years.⁵
Our excavations at Oxyrhynchus
are now finished,⁶ and next winter

we expect to remain in England
owing to lack of funds for excavating,
but hope to return to Egypt in the following
winter.⁷
We are hoping that the Reisners⁸ may
come this summer to Oxford.⁹ It is an
excellent thing that he has been appointed
to conduct the excavations of the
government in Nubia.¹⁰
With kindest regards from Dr
Hunt and myself,