66 letters from Fairman, 16 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Fairman. Pprofessional and personal matters, book purchases and exchange, books being lent, often to Fairman or Liverpool library. Particular topics: - Černý asked to obtain books on some of his international travels, e.g. books from the IFAO during his Egypt sojourns.
Objects in Manchester Museum,1759 and 4588
Nubian sites, Amara (West) (TopBib vii.159?, 1961), Abu Simbel
Exchange of opinions on papers by E. Edel, B. Grdseloff and others
Černý invited to be an external examiner for Liverpool, exchange of evaluations of individual students, notably K. Kitchen. J. Ruffle, M. A. M. Asfour.
Administration of the Egypt Exploration Society (EES)
Faulkner's translation (not published) of the stela of King Kamose [Kamosi], with an account of a victory over the Hyksos, found in the foundations of the Second Pylon, Karnak, and two additional blocks (found separately), found in the vicinity of the Third Pylon, now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo [TopBib ii2.37, 73]. 6 manuscript pages with later annotations (changes and corrections).
Sections of Faulkner, Raymond O. 1962. A concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian (OEB 9012). Entries for parts of m, nrw and sḥtp. 13 manuscript pages with later annotations (changes and corrections).
3 letters from Fecht, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Fecht. Professional matters, book exchange, and Černý's contribution for Firchow, O. (ed.), Ägyptologische Studien 29 (1955) (OEB 158830).
2 letters from Firchow, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Firchow. Černý's participation in Festschrift Grapow, see Firchow, O. (ed.), Ägyptologische Studien (1955) (OEB 158830).
4 letters from Gadd, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Gadd Černý's work on oracles; I. E. S. Edwards' candidature to the British Academy, the position of Oriental Studies in the British Academy.
1 letter from Gerster, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Gerster. Photographs of Protosinaitic inscriptions; Gerster's plans to prepare a book on Nubia; the Aswan dam project.
16 letters from Glanville, 1 copy of a letter from Černý to Glanville. 1 copy of a letter from Glanville to A. J. Arkell, copy sent to Černý. 1 memorandum of agreement between Černý and the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press. 1 letter from Glanville to Jean Tudor-Pole (Černý’s secretary). 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Carl Winter, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Professional and personal matters:
Černý’s arrival in the UK in 1946
Černý’s external examinership for Cambridge
A. J. Arkell's situation
publication of the rock-tombs at Meir, see Blackman, A. M. and Apted, M. R. The Rock tombs of Meir, v (1954) (OEB 1684) and vi (1954) (OEB 1685)
Černý’s communications with the Fitzwilliam Museum concerning photographs for Georges Nagel
furthering Černý’s participation in the Cambridge Ancient History volumes
the future of the Oxford Egyptological Chair
Glanville requesting advice on finding someone suitable to write a reference for a proposed publication on Josef Čapek
7 letters from Godron 1 carbon copy of a letter from (Helen Murray?, Černý's colleague) written on behalf of Černý's to Godron 1 copy of a letter to Godron, presumably forwarded to Černý Godron's studies in early dynastic material, Palermo stone, collections at Mariemont, and Godron's Coptic studies; Godron's visits to the United Kingdom.
14 letters from Grdseloff, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Grdseloff. 2 letters from Misha Grdseloff (brother of B. Grdseloff). 1 letter from Leonard Grdseloff (brother of B. Grdseloff). Professional as well as personal matters.
Grdseloff's work plans
personal news of other Egyptologists (H. W. Fairman, J. Leibovitch and H. J. Polotsky)
exchange of off-prints and other publications
most significant topic is Deir el-Medina fieldwork and finds of ostraca, including the Cairo love songs (O. DeM 1266 + CGC 25218), published by G. Posener, see Posener, G. Catalogue des ostraca hiératiques littéraires de Deir el Médineh II: Nos 1227-1266 (1972) (OEB 15763), and later Fox, M. V. 'The Cairo love songs', in Journal of the American Oriental Society 100 [2] (1980), 101-9, (OEB 22733)
another significant topic is Grdseloff's illness (stomach cancer), Černý sent his own rations of Hovis bread to Egypt to Grdseloff as it was one of the few foods Grdseloff could still digest