Notebooks, loose notes, maps, plans, drawings, newspaper cuttings, watercolours, and a silver desk-set. The documentation was created during Carter's career between 1899-1939. This material excludes material connected with the tomb of Tutankhamun, see the Tutankhamun Archive.
Howard Carter's annotated manuscript report on the Carnarvon-Carter excavations at Tell el-Balamūn, in 1913. Group includes:
"Note on the Capital of the 17th Nome, Sebennytos Inferior. Pa-aa-n-amen. Diospolis Kato. H. Carter Ap. 6. 1915".
Carter's transcriptions of site names, copied from various sources.
The report contains 30 numbered paragraphs that mention several finds including inscribed blocks, the base of a statuette, and a stela. The report has the following section headings:
General description
History
Excavations
Antiquities
18 lined pages with affixed photographic prints accompanied by manuscript captions. Carter numbered these pages as plates ii-xviii and they were intended to accompany this report, see Carter MSS iv.3-20.
Annotated typewritten list noting the division of vessels from the cache between Cairo Museum and Lord Carnarvon, signed by P. Lacau and Howard Carter on 20/05/1920. Includes the annotation 'Re[ceiv]ed J E Quibell 31/5/20'. Part of Carter's records for the cache of Merenptah and Ramesses II vessels found near the entrance of KV 8, Merneptah, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Nina de Davies' tracing, or drawing, of a scene with Ankhesenamun offering flowers to Tutankhamun and a frieze with girls picking flowers below, from the lid (no. 540) of box (no. 551), found in the Annex, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Probably traced from Davies drawing, see Carter MSS i.G.44E.
Nina de Davies' drawing of a scene with Ankhesenamun offering flowers to Tutankhamun and a frieze with girls picking flowers below, from the lid (no. 540) of box (no. 551), found in the Annex, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Probably used for Davies tracing, see Carter MSS i.G.44A.
Nina de Davies' tracing of a scene with Tutankhamun seated on a chair holding an armed bow shooting fish and fowl, with Ankhesenamun squatting on a cushion at King's feet, on a panel from the front of box (no. 551), found in the Annex, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Probably traced from Davies drawing, see Carter MSS i.G.44B.
Nina de Davies' annotated drawing of a scene with Tutankhamun seated on a chair holding an armed bow shooting fish and fowl, with Ankhesenamun squatting on a cushion at King's feet, on a panel from the front of box (no. 551), found in the Annex, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Probably used for Davies tracing, see Carter MSS i.G.44C.
Nina de Davies' tracing of scenes with wild cattle and plants, and a lion attacking an ibex, from a panel from one side of box (no. 551), found in the Annex, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Nina de Davies' inked tracing of scenes with a leopard attacking an ibex and a hound attacking a bull, from a panel from the back of box (no. 551), found in the Annex, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on Ay and Ankhesenamun, part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty. This group includes:
Letter from Percy E. Newberry regarding a ring with the cartouche of Ankhesenamun alongside the prenomen of Ay
Ay's titlary from his tomb, KV 23, Valley of the Kings, Thebes
Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun, part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty. This group includes:
4 pages of manuscript notes on inscriptions from Tutankhamun rings, and arguments for and against Tutankhamun being the son of Amenophis III (Amenhotep III)
4 pages of manuscript notes with the heading "Note re King Ay", discusses gold-leaf fragments with scenes of Tutankhamun and Ay, found in KV 58, Valley of the Kings
18 pages of manuscript notes, many of the pages are crossed through (cancelled), perhaps notes for a lecture, including extracts from Theodore M. Davis's publication for KV 57, Tutankhamun's marriage to Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamun's age at death, his parentage and succession, dated objects found in Tutankhamun's tomb, etc.
Newspaper cutting with a report of this lecture titled 'Secrets of Tomb of Tutankhamen. Dr. Howard Carter on the end of a Dynasty'. No record of which newspaper this comes from.
Howard Carter's notes for a lecture given at University College London, July 21, 1931.
Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on Amenophis III and Teye, , part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty. This group includes:
Set of manuscript notes, all crossed through (cancelled)
Later partial set of the manuscript notes
Notes on Amenophis III (Amenhotep III), his reign, monuments, dated inscriptions, worship of the Aten, the establishment of Amarna (Akhetaten; Akhetaton), and relevant bibliography
Typewritten notes on Amenophis III and Amenophis IV's co-regency
Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on Smenkhkare and Merytaten, part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty. This group includes:
Two sets of manuscript notes, both drafts of the same text, one set of draft pages all crossed through (cancelled)
Notes on Smenkhkare's monuments, dated inscriptions, and relevant bibliography
Photographs of two stelae in Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum, 17813, 20716.
Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on Amenophis IV (Amenhotep IV; Akhenaton; Ikhnaton), Nefertiti and princesses, part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty. This group includes:
Two sets of manuscript notes, both drafts of the same text, one set of draft pages all crossed through (cancelled)
Notes including the skeletal remains of Amenophis IV, dated monuments, and relevant bibliography
Newspaper cutting from Morning Post 5-05-1927, publishing a letter from Howard Carter on the excavations at el-Amarna
Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on the 'Heretic Family' (Amarna period kings), part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty. This group includes:
Typewritten genealogical table (folding) for Amenophis III (Amenhotep III), Amenophis IV (Amenhotep IV; Akhenaton; Ikhnaton), Smenkhkare, and Tutankhamun. Accompanied by 5 typewritten pages of accompanying notes, incorporating the comments of Dr Douglas Derry and Carter
Typewritten table with dates of accession and death for 18th Dynasty kings, excluding Neferneferuaten and Haremhab (Horemheb). - Accompanied by several pages of manuscript notes on regnal years, relevant bibliography, and miscellaneous notes
Letter to Carter from H. E. Winlock, dated 20-12-1925, regarding a discussion on Tutankhamun's parentage
Notes on dated monuments of Amenophis IV (Amenhotep IV; Akhenaton; Ikhnaton)
Letter to Carter from P. E. Newberry, dated 20-12-1931, responding to Carter's enquiry whether Amenophis III (Amenhotep III) had a son named Thutmose, off-print enclosed of Newberry, Percy E. 1928. 'The sons of Tuthmosis IV'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), pp. 82-85 figs pl. xii (OEB 146401).
Howard Carter's pencil sketch of some of the columns in the processional colonnade in Luxor Temple, with columns from a Coptic(?) building in the foreground.
Press cuttings collected by Howard Carter, some mentioning Carter's archaeological work, including Tutankhamun, and Carter manuscript note from original housing.
Carter MSS vi.7.1.1
The Times Educational Supplement
6 July 1929
Pages 307-8
'Side Windows on history' (from a correspondent)
Mentions Carter
Carter MSS vi.7.1.2
Liverpool Post
20 June 1929
'A cosmetic 3,000 year old'
Cosmetic specimen from Tutankhamun's tomb (see following)
Carter MSS vi.7.1.3
Daily Chronicle
20 June 1929
'Cosmetic from Luxor Tomb. | Shown to women in London. | After 3,300 years.'
Cosmetic specimen from Tutankhamun's tomb, analysed by Mr A. Chaston Chapman and Dr H. J. Plenderleith (see preceding)
Carter MSS vi.7.1.4
Morning Post
8 January 1929
'The King's Epiphany gifts
Not obviously related to Egypt or Carter
Carter MSS vi.7.1.5
The Times (?)
Summer 1930
'The Royal Academy | I.—Pictures and the public | A varied exhibition (By our Art Critic)'
Manuscript letter from R. Bethell, dated 27 May 1921, to Howard Carter, regarding Carter's proposed article on glass (see Carter MSS vi.5.3), part of Carter's records on glass.
An article, annotated by Carter, titled 'Egypt Calls' by Sir Evelyn Wrench and published in The Spectator, 6 September 1935, page 370, in which Wrench mentions his encounter with Howard Carter at Luxor.