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Percy Edward Newberry Collection

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  • Collection
  • 1629-1999

The Percy Newberry Collection has been listed thanks to a cataloguing grant from the The National Archives in 2015. The collection comprises a wide range of material on topics including Predynastic Egypt, Theban tombs, Egyptian flora and fauna, early Egyptian travellers, ancient Egyptian religion and culture, as well as Newberry's genealogy. Formats include notebooks, research notes, photographs, tracings, rubbings and newspaper clippings.

The collection has been divided into 5 series: Biographical Material; Correspondence; Research Notebooks; Subject Files, and Research Material.

The following key subject terms collate material on the same subject, which have been listed in different series:
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/nome-ensigns-percy-newberry-collection">Nome Ensigns</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/flora-and-fauna-percy-newberry-collection">Flora and Fauna</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/predynastic-egypt-percy-newberry-collection">Predynastic Egypt</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/scarabs-and-seals-percy-newberry-collection">Scarabs and Seals</a>

Newberry, Percy Edward

Mace, Arthur Cruttenden - correspondence

Correspondence from Arthur Cruttenden Mace (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) including relating to: excavation work in egypt, 1901; decorated predynastic pottery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York including sketches of boats with ensigns on mast heads, 1909; research by Newberry on boats and the pomegranate branch, 1910; his posting to the Supply Reserve Depot in Deptford, S.E., 1917; accession of the Munich collection; apology relating to concession for the Palace of Amenhotep III; purchase of the Macgregor and Hood collections; Carter and Breasted's negotiations with the Egyptian government, 1924.

Also includes a cablegram from Lythgoe cancelling option on the MacGregor collection, 1921.

MSS 30/6 includes a few words on the back relating to boats, 1921.

Note:
MSS 30/1 is also numbered 34
MSS 30/12 is also numbered 293

Maspero, (Sir) Gaston Camille Charles - correspondence

Correspondence from Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (1846-1916) including congratulating Newberry on finds (1900) and relating to granting permission to dig at the Palace of Amenhotep III (1901) and Akhmim (1911).

Also includes letter to Howard Carter arranging to 'see the mummies' (n.d.).

Note:
MSS 30/71 is also numbered 3
MSS 30/72 is also numbered 24
MSS 30/73 is also numbered 1
MSS 30/76 is also numbered A.32

McLellan, Grace Tytus - correspondence

Correspondence from Grace Tytus McLellan (formerly Grace de Peyster Tytus, wife of Robb de Peyster Tytus, née Henop) to Newberry and his wife.

Includes letter (MSS 30/48) relating to the death of her first husband Robb de Peyster Tytus, writing a memoir in his memory, items belonging to him from the Palace of Amenhotep III and marriage to her second husband.

Also includes Christmas card (1924) with a photograph of her house at Ashintully, Tyringham, Massachusetts in snow.

Note:
MSS30/46 is also numbered 244
MSS30/47 is also numbered 334a
MSS30/48 is also numbered 334
MSS30/49 is also numbered A.67

Meyer, Eduard - correspondence

Correspondence from Eduard Meyer including an invitation to dinner [in German], and relating to whether the Egyptian Museum of Berlin would like to purchase the 'Mena tablet'.

Meyer, Kuno - correspondence

Correspondence from Kuno Meyer including relating to the University of Liverpool and concerns relating to J.M. Mackay.

Also includes a newspaper cutting on the appointment of Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Lehmann-Haupt to the Gladstone Chair of Greek at the University of Liverpool, 17 May 1911.

Note:
MSS 30/106 is also numbered 385b
MSS 30/107 is also numbered 385a
MSS 30/180 is also numbered 385
MSS 30/109 is also numbered 385
MSS 30/110 is also numbered 385
MSS 30/111 is also numbered 385

Mond, (Sir) Robert Ludwig - correspondence

Correspondence from Sir Robert Ludwig Mond relating to payment for excavation work (1902); excavating at Qen Amen with Howard Carter (1903); the concession of Sheikh Abd el Qurna (1904) and an exhibition by the Egypt Exploration Society of Egyptian jewellery (1931).

Note:
MSS 49/23 is also numbered 6
MSS 49/24 is also numbered 7
MSS 49/25 is also numbered 57

Morgensen, Maria - correspondence

Correspondence from Maria Morgensen (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen) including relating to a pectoral of a priest of Amenhotep I from the sale of the Amherst collection and enclosing a photograph and cutting of the pectoral.

Murray, Margaret Alice - correspondence

Correspondence from Margaret Alice Murray including relating to: travel in Egypt; lines of research; work on publications including Index of Names and Titles of the Old Kingdom (1908); reference to unrolling a mummy at Manchester Museum (1908); publications by Newbwerry including relating to Set and Neith; a Belgian teaparty held for nurses (1915); death of Sir James Frazer; work on scarabs at the Institute of Archaeology, London.

Note:
MSS 32/8 is also numbered 4
MSS 32/9 is also numbered 3
MSS 32/16 is also numbered 371
MSS 32/18 is also numbered 264
MSS 32/19 is also numbered 277
MSS 32/21 is also numbered 281

Newberry, John E. - correspondence

Correspondence from John E. Newberry (Newberry's brother) including relating to his work for Henri Edouard Naville in Deir el Bahari, people he met whilst travelling in Egypt, forwarding correspondence and news to Newberry including relating to the work of the Egypt Exploration Society, and his career as an architect.

Includes correspondence relating to: the work of Marcus Blackden; visitors to excavation site including Lord and Lady Edward Churchill (1890); Howard Carter including his manners (1893); excavation at Deir el Bahari including a sketch plan of the house he was staying in with Naville and David George Hogarth's report to the Egypt Exploration Society (1893); health of his and Newberry's Mother; purchase of a house in London.

Also includes several letters from Newberry to his brother John including on courting and engagement to his first wife Nelly (1893-4) and on the tombs at Assiut (n.d.).

Note:
MSS 33/18 is also numbered 66 and 34
MSS 33/22 is also numbered 18
MSS 33/26 is also numbered 104
MSS 33/27 is also numbered 111
MSS 33/30 is also numbered 1
MSS 33/31 is also numbered 17
MSS 33/32 is also numbered A.214
MSS 33/33 is also numbered A.216
MSS 33/34 is also numbered A.217
MSS 33/35 is also numbered A.206
MSS 33/36 is also numbered A.264
MSS 33/37 is also numbered 9a

Oliver, Francis Wall - correspondence

Correspondence from Francis Wall Oliver (Professor of Botany, University of Cairo, 1929-1935) relating to botany, gardening and life in Egypt including travel, social life, climate and building a house. Also includes correspondence relating to spartina, the possibility of collecting samples to date the distributiton of plants, Cistus and the extraction of oil and questions for Newberry including relating to botany in ancient Egypt and the tomb of Minna. Also includes sketch of a large cabinet offered to Newberry.

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