1. 1900.
2. Refers to Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City: His Progress and Adventures, a book by S. R. Crockett, 1896.
4. Refers to the Irish Sea.
7. Stands for Graeco-Roman Branch, the part of the Egypt Exploration Fund supporting Grenfell and Hunt's excavations.
8. Presumably refers to Phoebe Hearst through George Reisner.
9. Refers to London.
10. See W. M. F. Petrie, Catalogue of antiquities from excavations at Abydos, found by the Egypt Exploration Fund and the Egyptian Research Account […]. London: University College, 1900.
11. The collection was donated to the state by Lady Wallace in 1897.
12. It is unclear which of Smyly's sisters this refers to.
13. Joshua Reynolds, Miss Nelly O'Brien is the portrait that Grenfell saw.