Images courtesty of University of California, The Bancroft Library.
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June 13. 1903
My dear Mr President,1
In answer to your
letter of May 28, I enclose a
copy of a review of the Tebtunis
Papyri2 (by Dr. J.P. Mahaffy3),
which appeared in the 'Athenaeum'4
of Jan. 17. 1903.5 The following
bibliography may also be of
service to you.
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(1) Manchester Guardian.6 Dec. 237 1902
by Canon Hicks8 'Ancient history
from Crocodile-mummies'.
(2) Journal of Hellenic Studies9
Vol xxiii. p. 206 (just out). a brief
notice, unsigned. Stevens10
(3) Literarisches Centralblatt11
Jan. 3. 1903 pp 20–23, review
by F.B(lass).12 MTM13
(4) Reale Accademia dei Lincei14
Rendiconti xi. fasc. 12. MTM Dec. 21. 1902
review by G. Lumbroso.15
(5) Wochenschrift für klassische
Philologie16 xx. nos 17 and 18 (April
29 and May 6. 1903) pp 449–460
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and 483|–489|17 review by W.
Crönert.18
(6) Archiv MTM für Papyrusforschung19
II. pp. 394–6 review by U. Wilcken20
(7) Classical Review. Feb. 1903
pp. 4-5. On P.Tebtunis Stevens 4 by
T.W. Allen.21
(8) Rivista di filologia22 xxi.
pp. 147–9. (Jan. 1903) review
by G. Fraccaroli.23 MTM
(9) Beilage zur nr. 121 der
'Wiener Abendpost'24 vom 28 Mai
1903. Review by Adolf Bauer.25
MTM
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10. There is also a reveiw b[y] T.
Reinach26 in a recent number of the
Revue des études grecques.27 {not in Jan–Ap. 1903 no}28
I had an application from the Editor
of the 'Neue Philologische Rundschau'29
(Dr. E. Ludwig, Bremen, Schönhausenstr.
2630) for a review copy. Perhaps you
would like to instruct Mr Frowde31
to send him one.
2. P.Tebt. I (1902).
5. The review, on pp. 75-76, is unsigned, but its authorship is clear enough from the content; i.e., Grenfell and Hunt need not have been informed about it (though they certainly could have been).
7. A period would be expected here, but the hole punch would have removed it.
8. Edward Hicks became the bishop of Lincoln in 1910; he was also an epigrapher.
10. Later addition, which annotated once more later in the letter, probably done by Wheeler or a delegate. Possibly a reference to Frank Stevens, who served in the president's office. For more on Stevens, see here.
12. Friedrich Blass, a close associate of Grenfell and Hunt.
13. Another later addition, which is replicated four more times throughout the letter, though it is unclear what it refers to.
14. Now known as Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
17. Brackets around page numbers and cross-out in pencil likely also added by Wheeler or a delegate.
28. Another later addition in pencil. The review appeared in vol. 17 (1904), fasc. 73-74 (Jan.-Apr.), pp. 129-31. Grenfell must have been alerted that it was coming.
29. No review of P.Tebt. I seems to have appeared in Neue Philologische Rundschau.
30. Potentially Ludwig's home address – the buildings seem residential.
31. Henry Frowde was the manager of the Oxford University Press.