A fallen column, perhaps from the Roman theatre, at Tell el-Farama (Pelusium):

• pencil drawing
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 115
• 25.8 x 17.8 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Ruins of a Temple at Pelusium. / 16 Feb 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '58' (pencil note)

The ruins of an Islamic building at Tineh; exterior view showing doorway and small windows:

• pencil drawing
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 117
• 25.9 x 17.8 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Bir Tiena 17th Feb. 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '60' (pencil note)

The ruins of an Islamic building at Tineh; interior view showing structural arches and doorway with small windows above:

• pencil drawing
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 126
• 17.8 x 25.8 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Interior of the Ruin at Bir Tiena. / 17th Feb 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '67' (pencil note)

Rafieah hunting boar in the salt marshes at Salhieh (Salhiya):

• pencil drawing
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 128 and Lloyd MSS 129
• 12.2 x 17.4 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Rafieah, Boar Shooting. Salhiah. 3rd Feb. 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '69' (pencil note)

A falcon capturing a teal above the salt marshes at Salhieh (Salhiya):

• pencil drawing
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 127 and Lloyd MSS 129
• 12.2 x 17.5 cm
• [on mount] '70' (pencil note)
• [on verso of drawing] 'Falcon stooping at a Teal. / Salhiah. 2nd Feb. 1843.' (pencil note)

Young shepherd hauling a sheep by its forelegs towards a pool of water at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil drawing
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 130 and Lloyd MSS 132
• 12.7 x 8.8 cm
• [on mount] '73' (pencil note)
• [on verso of drawing] 'Near the Memnonium / Qurna. Thebes / 6th Oct 1843.' (pencil note)

Flocks of birds upon, and flying above, the salt marshes, with a hunter in the foreground, at Salhieh (Salhiya):

• pencil drawing
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 130 and Lloyd MSS 131
• 17.4 x 12.1 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Salhiah' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '74' (pencil note)
• [on verso of drawing] 'A position in which one often finds oneself. Salhiah. 4th Feb 1843.' (pencil note)

Two female guests with two female attendants pouring water or oil onto the head of one of them, detail from a banquet scene in the tomb of Ptahemhet (TT 77), later usurped by Roy, temp. Tuthmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil tracing with edges folded in on two sides (right <twice> and bottom)
• mounted
• 66.2 x 46 cm
• [on recto of tracing] 'Lady in a bath. / Tomb at Thebes. No. 15 ? / 11th July 1843' (pencil note)
• [on verso of tracing] 'No. 10 -' (pencil note)
• [on verso of tracing] '8' (pencil note)

Memorial portrait of George Lloyd. Lloyd is portrayed reclining on a rug, wearing Arab clothing and holding the mouth-piece of a hookah-pipe in his right hand. The scene is set in a desert campsite, perhaps fictional, in Egypt, with a man standing with three camels in the background. The drawing this lithograph was based on was created by É. Prisse d'Avennes sometime between 1843 and 1848:

• three colour tinted lithograph
• loose item, perhaps not originally with the album but placed with it later
• 41.5 x 30.5 cm (print area of 36.1 x 27.7 cm)
• [on recto of lithograph] 'Drawn on stone by Lemoine. [caption]
• [on recto of lithograph] 'Portrait of the late George Lloyd Esqr' [caption]
• [on recto of lithograph] 'James Madden_London' [caption]
• [on verso of lithograph] '330' and enclosed ',1039' (pencil notes)

• J. Lane MSS 1-3: Journals of Jenny Lane, lady's maid to Lucy Renshaw, travelling companion of Amelia A. B. Edwards, describing in detail their various trips including the 1873-1874 journey through France and Italy, crossing from Brindisi to Alexandria on the Simla, thence up the Nile to Dendara, Karnak, Luxor, Aswan, Philae and Abu Simbel, and the return journey via Port Said, through Lebanon to Damascus, Baalbek and Beirut, Constantinople, Athens, and the Rhine. They contain vivid descriptions of the landscape, weather and peoples, and anecdotes and observations of fellow travellers and places visited. They cover the period from 4 September 1873 to 6 March 1876. 286 pages in three volumes, calf, worn, 8vo.
• J. Lane MSS 4: Photograph album put together following Miss Lane's two trips to Egypt and the Near East between 1873 and 1876.
• J. Lane MSS 5: Collection of antiquities and miscellanea collected by Miss Lane during her trips.
• J. Lane MSS 6: Three framed portraits (Jane Collins, née Jane Lane, George Collins [first husband], and George Lane [father]).
• J. Lane MSS 7: Photocopy of marriage certificate for George Collins and Jane Lane (20 October 1879).
• J. Lane MSS 8: Related documentation (three letters to the Martin family and two papers) by Brenda Moon.

Tutankhamun excavation journal 1922-1925, and miscellaneous notes

• 148 numbered pages
• Manuscript entries, with some drawings and pages with affixed newspaper cuttings

Howard Carter's excavation journal for the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922-1925, covering the first-third seasons

• Most entries are by Carter
• Entries between December 5th and 27th, 1922 (pages 43 to 47) are by Arthur Mace

Also, Carter's miscellaneous notes on Tutankhamun and other subjects:

• Notes on Synopsis
• The Legend of Osiris
• Nomenclature of certain Districts of the Theban Necropolis
• Records of Royal Tomb Robberies
• The First Theban Kingdom
• Protocol of Tut-Ankh-Amen

Newspaper cuttings

• The Times
  • 31 May 1923
  • 23 July 1923
  • 24 July 1923
  • 5 January 1924
  • 7 January 1924
  • 12 February 1924
  • 14 February 1924

Seal impressions. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• i. Letters from James Henry Breasted to Howard Carter, 1923, on an article in Harpers Magazine, and Tutankhamun's seal impressions.
• ii. James Henry Breasted's manuscript report on the eight types of seal impression found in Tutankhamun's tomb and 2 letters from Breasted to Carter dated 03-01-1923 and 15-02-1923.
• iii, iv. Two folders marked "Seals A-H" and "Seals I-S", Carter's annotated typewritten reports with his draft and finished pencil drawings of each type of seal impression, with some manuscript and a few typewritten notes.
• v. One record card with notes on seals, extracted from a letter from Breasted, dated 16-03-1923, copied by A. C. Mace.
• Later typed note, dated 1960, with A. H. Gardiner's translation for Seal C.
• Annotated photograph (Burton (sic) P0274b), almost certainly taken by Carter, of the outermost doorway showing the blocking intact with seals.

Howard Carter's lantern slides featuring Harry Burton's photographs taken during the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• A twelve-drawered wood chest containing over 600 glass lantern slides
• Belonging to Howard Carter.
• The lantern slides were made from Harry Burton's images.
• Used by Carter in his lectures.

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the production date of the postcard is not known, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• An Egyptian team member carrying a tray containing the four 'candlesticks' (Carter 41a-d), transporting them from the tomb's Antechamber to the Laboratory. Each 'candlestick' is in the form of an anthropomorphic ankh with arms raised to either hold a bronze torch-cup or a small pottery cup.

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• Egyptian team members transporting one of Tutankhamun's elaborate vessels (Carter 57) from the King's tomb to the nearby 'Laboratory' set up in the tomb of King Sethos II (KV15). The large vessel, carved from a single piece of Egyptian alabaster, originally contained unguent, its contents stolen by the tomb robbers who entered the tomb in antiquity. The vessel's body is flanked by openwork side pieces incorporating bound papyrus and lotus flowers, symbolising Upper and Lower Egypt and its unification, as well as representing the King's sovereignty. The vessel's body is decorated with Tutankhamun's cartouches; the incised decoration has been filled with black pigment.

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• View of the modern enclosure wall of Tutankhamun's tomb, erected by Howard Carter following the discovery of the King's tomb in November 1922, with the tomb's entrance visible in the foreground (left of centre).

• Comic postcard.
• "Tu tanks have just arrived!".
• Issued by Inter-Art Co., London.
• "Comique" Series no. 4491.
• Mailed on Thursday, 27 May 1926.
• Postcard sent by R. Wilman to Miss D. Dixon, 7 Victoria Buildings, Morecambe.

Notebooks, negatives, photographs, maps, and drawings made during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. For other material, refer to the catalogue.

Ferdinand (Ferdy) Platt's correspondence relates to two excursions to Egypt, in 1896 and 1907-1908.

• First group: eighteen letters and postcards, sent during Platt's first independent visit to Egypt in early 1896, when he initially travelled with a friend. Dating between 26 January and 19 April, the letters are addressed to Platt's mother and brother Erny. They record meeting Flinders Petrie and other notables.
• Second group: thirty-one letters sent during Platt's second trip to Egypt in 1907-1908, when he accompanied the eighth Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, their relations Lord and Lady Gosford with their daughter Lady Theo, Sir Charles Cradock-Hartopp. Dating between 4 November 1907 and 8 February 1908, they are addressed to Platt's wife, Mabel (May). They record Platt's encounters with Winston Churchill, Alan Gardiner, James Quibell, George Reisner, Archibald Sayce and Arthur Weigall, among others. The letters also mention a meeting with Howard Carter when the latter was still earning a living as an artist, producing paintings for tourists; the letters provide important insights into Carter's life just before he began his partnership with Lord Carnarvon.

Copies of texts, mostly from Theban tombs.