Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 036d | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folde
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| Transcription: | It was an article for the North American Review: \"the Atlantic Monthly\". I am rather anxious to know what happened to it. I also wanted to send a copy of the Museum Journal to Miss Bell and to Mr Cooke of the Awqaf. I don't know whether you had time or opportunity to send it- It would certainly be useful for our good name- IIYou know that Woolley has a lady assistant but unfortunately since she broke her collar bone in the middle of December, she has been laid up, slowly recovering and and not able to do more than to grace our mess by her presence.We had the visit of two American professors. Albright from the american school in Jerusalem, and professor Dougherty from Baltimore who succeeds to Dr Chiera as annual professor of the Baghdad branch. The latter with two camels, one dragoman, two mounted policemen is supposed to survey the desert and identify lost cities. He does not talk arabic, but is full of good will. I suspect that he was anxious to settle down in our camp too. But I gave no encouragement to the idea. My last year experience is over sufficient. This is the end of gossips and scandals. How I long to here more from you. I was sorry to hear that Mrs Dam had so much troubles again-. Please thank for my your young assistant Miss G. Bruckner for her Xmas card and give my love to all the staff with a good share for you. Yours Sincerly. L. Legrain |
| Media Title: | Ur Notebook Scan -- 1926 - Box: 7 Folder: 3 - Page: 036d |
| Page Number: | 036d |
| Project: | CU |
| Date: | 1926 |
| Author: | Leon Legrain |
| Penn Archival Box Number: | 7 |
| Penn Archival Folder Number: | 3 |
| Crowdsource Tags: | handwritten, Legrain |
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| People | Full Name | Biography |
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| Leon Legrain | Father Legrain was born in France, ordained as a priest there in 1904, and studied at the Catholic University of Lille and at the Collegium Appolinare in Rome. Assyriology professor at the Catholic Institute in Paris until WWI, he was then an interpreter in the war. He became curator of the Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum in 1920 and retired in 1952. A specialist in cuneiform, he was the epigraphist at Ur during the 1924-25 and 1925-26 field seasons. He published widely on texts and engraved seals, both in his time before the Penn Museum and after. He published seals and sealings from Ur (Ur Excavations volume 10), some of the tablets (Ur Excavations Texts volume 3) and was slated to publish a volume on the figurines from the site. His research and even an unpublished catalogue for this volume are in archives at the Penn Museum and now available on this website. Even after his two years at the site of Ur, Legrain played an integral role in the excavations. Not only did he research, publish, and display artifacts in the Penn Museum, but he was also the Museum's representative in the division of objects from Ur conducted almost every year in London. Legrain's letters about this process are very interesting, often in a more personal tone than Woolley's. In fact, many of his colleagues declared that Legrain was particularly entertaining and jovial, if cynical. His photographs at Ur are some of the only images we have of daily life, with many pictures of local Iraqis. |
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