Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard: Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into upper Egypt, and Appendix (Band 2) (London, 1841)

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APPENDIX.

(Copy.)

Cairo, \2th February, 1837.

My dear Mr. Caviglia,—As I find that the affair of the
Pyramids gives me nothing but trouble and annoyance, I have
determined, though with much regret, to withdraw altogether
from the undertaking.

It therefore becomes necessary that you should consider our
labours as finished, and you will be pleased to send me the firman,
and the translation, as it at present belongs by right to Colonel
Vyse, with whom the sheiks of the villages will henceforth con-
cert their operations. You will also be pleased to pay the
government cavass, and dismiss him.

It now only remains for me to assure you how sensible I feel
of the zeal you have manifested in our undertaking; and that it
is with the utmost regret that I find myself compelled by circum-
stances to decline your co-operation, as well as the pleasure which
I had promised myself, from the prosecution of the works at the
Pyramids.

I beg you to believe that I remain, &c.

(Signed)

PAT. CAMPBELL.