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After manuscripts are passed, let Stephen take them to my house and preserve them in the old vault in the stable which is the [[strikethrough]] digest [[/strikethrough]] digest. Tell him to keep them in their present box, wrapped in their present wrappings so as to exclude moisture. They are on parchment which is now excessively dry and moisture would injure them very much. 

They are not dutiable

I prefer that no one but Stephen see them after they reach my house - they are of great importance.

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Case B contains [[strikethrough]] as [[/strikethrough]] a miscellaneous lot of books many of which I took with me from America and hence are not dutiable.

In the lot is one paper covered book on Oriental Ceramics given me by the author Dr. Fouguet of Cairo. I don't know its value but I fancy two or three dollars but being in French it is not dutiable.

There are three other little books in English worth - in all about 121 - There is also some fragments of pottery and tiles and some miscellaneous specimens of Egyptian things for my future study and four saucers, a small