On 15th April 1802, Mary Elgin , wife of Lord Elgin, writes in her diary that a Greek worker confessed to her that as they were removing the statues from their places, they heard them weeping .
On 30th April 1802 she writes that along with another Greek worker, they carried secretly the head of a statue and hid it in Parnitha. Considering this as the only good action of her life, she mentions it a lot of times, not only in her diary but in the letters to her lover Robert Ferguson as well.
(Source: ‘Beyond time’, Sally Emerson (Oceanida)
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