The Archive / Item 6
Field Notebook Excerpt — Site VO-7, the Veiled Oasis (C. Ravensworth)
Four consecutive leaves from Cordelia Ravensworth's pocket notebook, transcribed with original pagination and irregular hand retained. The inline viewer presents those leaves as aged exhibition facsimiles; the clean transcript remains available as the authoritative reading edition. The notes record the opening of sealed Chamber 3 at 5.50 a.m. on 3 February 1909, the discovery of the case and its contents, and the assignment of field numbers 137, 137a, and 137b.
“Shape hard to read at first… A bow, is my honest reading, though large & oddly made; set down w/ no great confidence.”
— f. 2, 3 February 1909
The transcript, returned to the texture of an archive sheet
The four leaves below reproduce the wording and pagination of the clean transcription while presenting it as a handled paper facsimile for the exhibition viewer.
Edition note: the inline facsimile is a presentation layer, not a claim that these are photographs of Cordelia Ravensworth's lost original notebook. For exact reading and citation, use the transcript PDF.
Relation to other items
Supplies first-hand detail behind the private letter's oblique reference to the Veiled Oasis.
The 3 February 1909 chamber-opening recorded here coincides with the arc's first sighting there.
Field numbers 137/137a/137b assigned here begin the bow's own custody chain.