Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities to Julia Briggs, undated

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1

Identifier: 2005.002.1.1.1.025

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

"Many thanks for your card and the note from Stephanie West, returned herewith. No, I think the Petrie idea wildly implausible - none of his contemporaries would have described him as "pale and kindly"!!! He was irascible, opinionated, strong-willed, hyperactive, and, when young, handsome in a rather saturnine way (he became patriarchal later)..."