[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist, discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. An impassioned A.L.S. by Fatma Mohamed Shaban, daughter of Mohamed Effendi Shaban, Assistant Curator at the Cairo Museum, four pages, 8vo, Egypt, 10^th July 1933, to Howard Carter. Shaban writes, in part, 'With great sorrow, and a broken heart, I represent myself to you….and I hope that you may remember me…..the daughter of the late  Mohamed Eff Shaban, who was the assistant keeper of the Egyptian museum. I know you my kind friend, and many a time I saw you at Luxour when working with my late father….in the Tomb of Tout Ankh Amon….With my hands I prepared the tea for you, with my eyes I saw you and with my tongue I spoke to you…..I heard my late father singing with your noble name, and relating you kind and gentle dealings with him when you were working together…..Now Sir my father died and we felt misfortune, misery and calamity approaching us. My mother is ill and she is nearer to death than to life…..I find difficulty to find my living. If mother dies I shall not find bread to eat. In the same time I have no husband. I ask you by God, you are the friend of my father, you are now my father in my bad condition, help me o'noble father, help me o'gentleman, let you kind fell upon me from the heaven of England. I weap (sic) when writing you this letter…..I am sure that you can help me because you are noble. The help is very easy. I have a brother, he succeeded this year in obtaining the liecence (sic) with degree from the Egyptian University. I have no one in Egypt to help him to find any function in the Egyptian Government. I heard my late father saying that you know his majesty Ismail Pasha Sedki the head of our government and who is now in England. Please speak to him or write him a letter to help my brother to find him any function in the government…..Help my brother to work so as to find bread to eat. I beg you, I kiss the dust under you to help my brother and do your best to disguss (sic) the matter with Ismail Pasha Sedki for the sake of my dying mother and for my own sake' VG