C. Fisher Diary, p.013

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Saturday, December 19, 1914 - Tuesday, January 12, 1915 (continued)

1st To that part of the site of Tanis (San el-Hagar) not already held by the French Concessionaire;
2nd To that portion of the Giza cemetery not already held by Dr. Reisner.
I hoped the Comité in both cases would open up the site to us because we were an expedition from a University Museum, which had come to Egypt prepared o carry on excavations on a large scale.
On the 7th of January I received a letter from the Service stating that the Comité has decided not grant our application for either Tanis or Giza. Through a private sources I learned that Mr. Farnall, who represents the Ministry of Finance on the Comité and is therefore one of its influential members, was of the opinion that we ought to have these sites on the general principle that it is a very bad practice to allow sites to be covered by blanket concessions to different people who have no present intentions of working them or who are not prepared to do so.
Several days after this, M.C.C. Edgar, who is Chief Inspector of Antiquities for Lower Egypt, was paying a visit at the Pyramids’ Camp,…

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