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refered{sic} to as an authority in Archeology in "Encyclopedia
Britannica", and this quiet unpretending man, has high
reputation among Scholars in England. He owns
the private collection I refered{sic} to, and his present
financial trouble is a sufficient caution to me,
were one needed, for he has been been digging in tombs
+ {carat and "th"? Unclear sign, perhaps "etc"?} all his life. He writes promising to send me two
vases taken by himself from excavating Troy "cleaned
or uncleaned" as I prefer. I choose{chose?} them with the
incrustation of lime of the centuries on them, and
will have the pleasure of seeing the figures come
out when I remove it, at home, with a light solution
of Muriatic Acid. The vases will be from the ruins
of the Greek Illium constructed under the orders of
Alexander the Great, and antedating the Greco-Roman
era. I have a well preserved vase from pre-historic
Troy, but no pottery of that period was ever painted
or ornamented. So much for that.

I have no idea of selling my part of my land,
so long as Mrs. Terrell lives, + will act as overseer.

{written in pencil perpendicular to the text along the upper left margin:}(Presented by A. W. Terrell to the University
of Texas. Lilla Watkins Rector)