ABSTRACT
The so-called ‘Petrie Journals’ comprise a miscellaneous selection of correspondence: in the earlier seasons in his career, they seem to follow a regular system of more or less weekly semipublic letters sent to England for circulation among friends, whereas for later seasons the letters available seem to be more variable and to belong more to private correspondence. A full transcript of the journals would have to cover material of other periods from Hawara and material from other sites explored by Petrie in the same seasons. The excerpts have been taken from the copies in the Petrie Museum archive (photocopies and typed transcripts). For kind permission to reproduce the passages in this book, the authors are grateful to Dr Jaromir Malek of the Griffith Institute, where the journals are archived.
