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 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 convinient. 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 mostly been 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 winter following.⁷

We are hoping that the Reisners⁸ may
come this summer to Oxford.⁹ It is an
excellent thing that Dr Reisner has
been appointed to conduct the government
excavations in Nubia.¹⁰