Identity area
Reference code
Edwards - Černý MSS 21.56, 485-533, 2392-93C, 2403-13, 2443-4
Title
Edwards, Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen - correspondence
Date(s)
- 1946-1968 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
0.5 cm, 68 letters
Context area
Name of creator
(1898-1970)
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Scope and content
55 letters from Edwards to Černý.
11 letters to Marie Černý from Edwards, 2 draft letters from M. Černý to Edwards.
Professional as well as personal matters. Philology, publication of Abusir papyri, objects from the British Museum collections, Nubian campaigns; academic examinations and positions, including Černý's transfer from London to Oxford; family matters.
Particular issues include:
- purchases of publications in Cairo
- following Černý's death, Edwards corresponded with Marie Černý concerning the transfer of Černý's library to Prague
- T. G. H. James to be recommended as The Lady Wallis Budge Fellow
- the Palmer Holland squeezes material
- papyri at Kingston Lacy
- Coptic etymologies
- Edwards' candidature for the British Academy, supported by Černý
- stela of Rudjahau, in London, British Museum, EA 159, TopBib v.95-6
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Language of material
- English