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
Photographs of objects in museums and of sites, material collected for projected articles, notebooks, notes and articles on hieratic ostraca, and notes on Coptic grammar.
Annotated proofs of Newberry, Percy E., The life of Rekhmara, vezîr of Upper Egypt under Thothmes III and Amenhetep II (circa BC 1471-1448) (1900) (OEB 146373), plates II (2 copies) & III, IX & X
Hand-copies of texts from the Tomb of Rekhmireʿ at TopBib i.2.207(4) and from the Tomb of Amenemopet (TT 29) at TopBib i.2.46(3), see Davies, Norman de Garis, The tomb of Rekh-mi-rē' at Thebes (1943) (OEB 137925), plates XVI, CXIX & CXXII[A]
Hand-copy of text from the Tomb of Rekhmireʿ at TopBib i.2.206(2), see Davies, Norman de Garis, The tomb of Rekh-mi-rē' at Thebes (1943) (OEB 137925), plates XXVI-XXIX.
Griffith MSS 1.17.1, 2, 5, 5 verso, 7, 8: Stelae in Oxford, Queen's College, Nos. 1110 to 1113 [on loan to the Ashmolean Museum]. Smither, Paul C. and Alec N. Dakin, 'Stelae in the Queen's College, Oxford', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 25 (2) (1939), 157-165 (OEB 150464), plates XX [1, 2], XXI [5, 4].
Griffith MSS 1.17.3, 4: Stelae in Brighton Museum - Ram of Amun in papyrus, XVIIIth Dynasty and Minhotep, XIIth Dynasty. Weigall, Arthur E., The funeral tablets in the Brighton Museum, in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 22 (1900), 272-273, with plates I and II (OEB 152091).
Griffith MSS 1.17.4: Block statue of Minmosi, temp. Rameses II, in Brighton Museum. Clère, J. J., 'Deux statues 'gardiennes de porte' d'époque ramesside', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 54 (1968), 135-148 (OEB 12800), esp. 135-8, 142-5 with fig. 1 and plate XXI.
Griffith MSS 1.17.4a verso: Ushabti in Brighton Museum.
Griffith MSS 1.17.4b: Notes on objects in Brighton Museum.
Griffith MSS 1.17.2 verso: Wooden mummy case in Oxford, Ashmolean Museum.
Griffith MSS 1.22.1 [upper]: No. 1012. Drawing of scarab. Gardiner, Alan H., 'The Delta residence of the Ramessides', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 5 (2, 3) (1918), 127-138, 179-200 (OEB 139901), esp. fig. 3, p. 198.
Griffith MSS 1.22.1 [lower]: No. 1551. Hand-copy of text on lower part of donation-stela of Hatihati, temp. Takelothis I. Provenance not known. Wiedemann, A., 'Stela at Freiburg in Baden', in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 13 (1890-1891), 31-39 (OEB 152503), esp. p.36 [middle].
Griffith MSS 1.22.2: No. 1578. Stela of Ahmosi before Reshef-Shanwana. Griffith, F. Ll., 'The Aberdeen Reshep stela', in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 22 (1900), 271-272 (OEB 140705), esp. plate opposite p. 271.
Block with names of Har[...], Kapermehet, [...]fankh, son of Harsiesi found at Birkdale by John Noton in 1904. Correspondence, rubbings, photographs and hand-copy with translation by Griffith.
A: Rossi-Lanzone no. 1983 recto and verso. See Pleyte, W. and F. Rossi, Papyrus de Turin, 2 vols (1869-1876) (OEB 147627), plates CXXXIX-CXL (recto only).
