SCHLIEMANN (HEINRICH)


Autograph letter signed ("H Schliemann"), to "Sir", announcing that he intends "going to morrow night to the Thermopylae" and is "overwhelmed with work"; but that "most likely I shall show to morrow to Mr and Mrs Pfeiffer the Mycenian Collection" and he is welcome to join them, 1 page, on blue paper, mounted at left edge on an album leaf, overlaid by two small patched of paper from another letter, minor tears at folds, 16mo, dated in another hand Athens, 26 January 1883
|SCHLIEMANN OFFERS TO 'SHOW TO MORROW... THE MYCENIAN COLLECTION', which included the so-called Mask of Agamemnon, which he had discovered in 1876. In 1883 he conducted his excavations at Thermopylae and Marathon as well as continuing his third excavation of Troy.