Identity area
Reference code
Beaton/D/2/1/121
Unique identifier
GB 275 Beaton/D/2/1/121
Title
Peter the Guide
Date(s)
- April 1972 (circa.) (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
7p paper
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Typescript draft of an article, in which Beaton recounts a visit to the temples in Luxor, Egypt, with Egyptian guide, Peter, who claimed to have worked as a boy for Howard Carter, when the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922. Pencil annotation on first page reads: "Sent to Press, April 1972".