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to-morrow to photograph my whole Trojan collection, 

 each layer separately. 



I still beg leave to send you herewith a book I wrote 

 four years ago on Troy ; prefaces are never read in Paris, 

 but, pray, do me the favour to read the preface of my 

 book, for it describes my adventurous life. — I am, with 

 profound respect, your Lordship's admirer, 



Doctor Henry Schliemann. 



Sir John Lubbock, Bart., London. 



Pray, my Lord, send me a copy of your report when it 

 is published. 



I regret very much that you did not come to Athens, 

 for I would have been so happy to show you all my 

 Trojan antiquities, and science would have greatly gained 

 by it if you had seen them. 



Any advice you may be pleased to give me regarding 

 the excavations at Troy will be followed with gratitude. 



Mr. Gladstone's continued interest in the 

 question of the ancient metals is shown in the 

 following note of the same year : 



11 Carlton House Terrace, S.W., 

 November 22nd, 1872. 



Dear Sir J. Lubbock — I hope you will go to see 

 General de Cesnola's collection of Cypriote remains at 

 61 Great Russell Street. I have often pleaded for the 

 recognition of the Copper Age, which is the Age described 

 by Horace ; and the difficulty is the want of adequate 

 remains. I have been obliged to allow that though 

 there were very remarkable remains in Copper, I could 

 not point to them in quantity. 



At General de Cesnola's house, yesterday, I had the 

 pleasure of seeing a Copper knife and small axe (as well 

 as the pain of breaking the knife point in trying whether 

 it was flexible), and of his numerous weapons and instru- 

 ments in G. Russell Street the General tells me that 

 one-third are Copper. — Yours very faithfully, 



W. E. Gladstone. 



Recording a life in which so very much was 

 accomplished as in that of Sir John Lubbock's, 

 and in noting, year by year, the results of his 



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