Original certificate
A particularly interesting page of this journal is the one on which is pasted the original certificate of having visited Nazareth, with the seal of the Convent of St. Mary attached. This document is reproduced in facsimile at page 224. The original of the more important Jerusalem certificate seems also to have been preserved at one time in this volume, but the leaf to which it was attached has unfortunately been torn out of the book.
In the matter of inscriptions, Hugh Moore seems to have been even more of an antiquarian than Whaley, setting out, as he does, many of those which were then to be seen in Constantinople, in Greek, Latin and Russian, while his readings of those at Jerusalem are fuller at times than the versions given by his companion. Here again Capt. Moore was sometimes indebted to others, as he acknowledges, both for the originals and the renderings which occasionally accompany them.
I am under a further debt of obligation to Mr. Armytage Moore for the photograph of Capt. Moore’s portrait, which is reproduced at page xlii.
Correction of faulty punctuation
I have taken as few liberties as possible with the original text of Whaley’s manuscript, the changes introduced being mainly directed to the correction of faulty punctuation, the cancellation of constantly recurring capital letters, and the occasional modernising of the spelling. In some rare cases where Whaley’s language is somewhat too outspoken, I have indicated omissions from the original by asterisks. Any words added to the text will be found enclosed in square brackets.
In addition to those already mentioned as assisting me in the editing of these Memoirs, I desire to express my thanks for aid and information to Mr. W. G. Wood, of Streatham ; Mr. John Whaley, of Annsboro, Naas, co. Kildare ; Miss Whaley, of Malahide, co. Dublin ; Mr. Thomas Cunnellon, T.C., Knutsford ; the Manageress, Fort Anne Hotel, Douglas ; Mr. Horace Headlam, of the Public Record Office, London ; the Assistant Librarian, Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall ; the Librarian of the Foreign Office ; Mr. F. Elrington Ball, of Dublin ; and the Secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund.












