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JER/WIL12. [Sir H.James]: estimate of expenses for the exploration of Palestine from November 1 [1863] to May 31 [1866].

JER/WIL13. Letter from Wilson, to Besant: on the tombs at Abud and a Greek inscription, no date, maybe 1868.

JER/WIL14. [Wilson]: comments on excavations carried out by Dr. Schick near Jeremiah’s grotto in Jerusalem, [1874].

JER/WIL15. Letter from Wilson, Dublin, to Besant: on Fergusson’s theory of the Holy Sepulchre. “I am quite unprejudiced...” . Enclosed notes towards the proposed [Palestine Pilgrims Text Soc.] Series, 10 [December] 1870 (2 duplications numbered 15.01 and 15.02).

JER/WIL16. Letter from Wilson to Besant: discusses instructions given to Palmer concerning his visit to Moab and the copying of inscriptions in Jerusalem, [1864-1869].

JER/WIL17. Note on the cost of the Survey of Jerusalem as against the amount of money granted to it, no date.

Report by Col. Sir James, Royal Engineers, offprint of paper read to Royal Society, May 3, 1866.
[in proceedings Royal Soc. Vol. 15, 1866-1867].

Manuscript signed. 53 x 33 cm. No scale given.

Deputy Adj. General, Royal Engineers, to Secretary of PEF: notes return from Jerusalem of Lt. Corporal Richard Turner.

Lt. M.J. Macartney, Royal Engineers, 36 Coy, Royal Engineers Chatham, to Secretary PEF: requests details of detached service of Sgt. Henry Phillips and Sappers Talbot and Conway. Royal Engineers.

D.A.G., Royal Engineers, to Secretary of PEF: on the service eith PEF of Lt. Corporals Duncan McKenzie and John Cock, Royal Engineers, and Sgt. Henry Birtles.
2 copies assigned n°22,01 and n°22,02.

Warren, 9 Pall Mall East, to Mrs. Waugh: regarding a watch arrived from Holman Hunt in Jerusalem.

Warren Malham Tarn, Bell Busk, near Leeds, to Besant: regarding publication.

Copy letter, Morrison, PEF to Ld. Clarendon, Foreign Office: recapitulates the work in Jerusalem and seeks good offices in obtaining a firman permitting investigation of recently exposed vaults close to Kubbet es Saldera; notes also recent decision of the Porte to permit Christians to visit Mosques.

Chaplin, Jerusalem, to Besant: claim of the Abu Saud family that collapse of property due to PEF works.