R.1908–09 / 4 · privately held

“Material Omitted from the Report” — Ravensworth Expedition, private dossier

Six enclosures the Director kept back from the printer: Prof. Bramhall's hedged translation memorandum, a personal letter from Cordelia Ravensworth noting an unsettling coincidence of dates, and the photographic working materials — a contact print, a tracing overlay, and their composited alignment — concerning the bow device of stela No. 41. Marked in his own hand, “Kept among my own papers. — E.A.R.”

Physical: 8 pp.; manila/kraft stock, warm ochre tone; A4 trim; unbound gathering, kept as a private folder
Date: Undated; enclosures range May–July 1909; date of discovery among the Director's effects unestablished
Status: Not deposited with the Committee papers
Relation: Fulfills, in draft, the promise at §37 of the Report that Bramhall's reading “will be printed in the next report” — a promise the printed record does not appear to have kept.

“It was written to me, not to the Committee, and I cannot at present see that the Committee's purposes are served by my forcing it into a place it was not meant for.”

— the Director's covering note, on his cousin's letter

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Relation to other items

Annual Report

§37 promises Bramhall's reading “in the next report” — fulfilled here only in draft, and only privately.

Photographic Plates I–XII

The contact print and tracing here concern the same Plate X device reproduced there.

Field Notebook Excerpt

Supplies first-hand detail behind the Veiled Oasis material referenced obliquely in Cordelia's letter here.

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The Instrument Room

Recreate the tracing-overlay alignment described in this dossier's fifth and sixth enclosures.