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marked A containing manuscripts in Greek writing -

5 volumes on parts and a few small samples of early Greek writing on papyrus.

Every small scrap or fragment containing even one letter of these writings is valuable and should be carefully preserved. Kindly be present when this case (A) is opened at Custom House -

Only one of the manuscripts is bound and that is decorated boards, from the covers of the others as well as much of the margins have burned away in the desert sands when they were buried.