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Before leaving London, in 1873, I made arrangements for copying the documents in these two collections. In arranging for this work, it was proposed, in order to lessen the cost, to have only a careful selection made and copied. My own view was, that no man could tell what documents might or might not be safely omitted, even the most trifling being a link in the chain of evidence, as every investigator knows. The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. John Henry Pope, saw the propriety of my recommendation, and gave the necessary authority to have the collections copied in full. On this point I ma be pardoned for quoting the words of a recent writer on Egyptian antiquities. Hye says: 'n 0 object has been deemed too trivial for examination. The relations of one monarch to another have been found on scraps of vases, chips of wood, and fragments of papyri. A mutilated hieroglyph on the dress of a statue has revealed a political mystery, and a series of erasures on granite blocks, a religious revolution.' A curious instance of the correctness o the statement just quoted is to be found in the proof afforded by a contract for the sale of a piece of land, recorded on stahlst now in the British Museum, of the existence of a King of Babylon twenty-five centuries ago, which was suspected but not proved.
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Before leaving London, in 1873, I made arrangements for copying the documents in these two collections. In arranging for this work, it was proposed, in order to lessen the cost, to have only a careful selection made and copied. My own view was, that no man could tell what documents might or might not be safely omitted, even the most trifling being a link in the chain of evidence, as every investigator knows. The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. John Henry Pope, saw the propriety of my recommendation, and gave the necessary authority to have the collections copied in full. On this point I ma be pardoned for quoting the words of a recent writer on Egyptian antiquities. Hye says: 'n 0 object has been deemed too trivial for examination. The relations of one monarch to another have been found on scraps of vases, chips of wood, and fragments of papyri. A mutilated hieroglyph on the dress of a statue has revealed a political mystery, and a series of erasures on granite blocks, a religious revolution.' A curious instance of the correctness o the statement just quoted is to be found in the proof afforded by a contract for the sale of a piece of land, recorded on stahlst now in the British Museum, of the existence of a King of Babylon twenty-five centuries ago, which was suspected but not proved.
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