Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript notes on the royal tombs, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's typescript notes on the orientation of sarcophagi in the royal tombs, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's manuscript notes on the wall decoration in the tomb of Tuthmosis III, KV 34, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Also three plates from from Loret, Victor 1898. 'Le tombeau de Thoutmès III à Biban el-Molouk / et la cachette royale de Biban el-Molouk'. Bulletin de l'Institut Égyptien, troisième série 9, pls. 4-6.

Howard Carter's manuscript notes and drawings with measurements for the sarcophagus in the tomb of Tuthmosis III, KV 34, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's manuscript notes on the mummies found in the tomb of Amenophis II, KV 35, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

• Mummy of Amenophis II
• Mummies of two women and a boy
• 8 plates from Loret, Victor 1898. 'Le tombeau de Thoutmès III à Biban el-Molouk / et la cachette royale de Biban el-Molouk'. Bulletin de l'Institut Égyptien, troisième série 9.

Two photographs showing the location of foundation deposits adjacent to the entrance of the tomb of Tuthmosis IV, KV 43, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Both photographs are annotated by Howard Carter. Also an illustration with objects from deposit published in Carter, Howard and Percy E. Newberry 1904. The tomb of Thoutmôsis IV.

Howard Carter's manuscript note with transcriptions for altered cartouches in the tomb of Ramesses III, KV 11, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 24 and 25 with manuscript captions, finds from trench no. 3, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (24) Carter's inked drawing of a fragment with inscriptions, for the lower part of a green basalt statuette of [Dhjeuti]emsaf holding statuette of Osiris, 26th Dynasty, in Carnarvon collection H 3.
• (25) Lower part of a stela, remains of scene, a king offering image of Maet to Amun-Re and two [seated deities], and two crocodiles with painted demotic text below, Ptolemaic.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 31 and 32 with manuscript captions, finds in trenches nos. 3, 3a, 3b and 5, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (31) Trenches 3, 3a and 3b, pottery vessels.
• (32) Trench 5, pottery vessels.

Some of the vessels shown in (31) also feature in another photograph, see Carter MSS iv.40.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 33 and 34 with manuscript captions, finds in trenches nos. 3 and 5, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (33) Trench 3, two pottery vessels, right pot "contained debased silver jewellery of Ptol. XIII Period."
• (34) Trench 5, pottery vessels.

Another photograph with a different view of the same group of vessels in (34), see Carter MSS iv.41.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 35 and [36] with manuscript captions, finds from trenches nos. 2 and from Temple and Palace area site, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (35) Trench 2, pottery vessel, Greek period.
• [36] From various parts of the site, pottery vessels.

Howard Carter's photographs, views of a town on the Mediterranean coast, probably Damietta.
The photographs are part of Carter's records for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

Howard Carter's manuscript notes, recorded in a notebook and 15 loose pages, on ancient Near Eastern weights.

Howard Carter's autobiography, draft typescript, a notebook containing a draft manuscript, and an annotated newspaper cutting. The typescript has the following section/chapter headings:

• The Valley of the Tombs of the Kings
  • 5 pages, annotated typescript, pages [59]-61 are crossed through (cancelled)
  • 1 section/chapter title page
  • 4 typescript pages, numbered [59]-62
• A History of the Theban Royal Mummies
  • Decadence and Destiny: I to IX
    • "Sketch IX" (Carter's annotation on page [63]
    • 82 pages, annotated typescript, most pages, except title pages, are crossed through (cancelled)
    • 4 section/chapter title pages
    • 78 typescript pages, numbered [63]-136
• Notebook
  • 19 pages, draft manuscript, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • 4 loose pages with additional manuscript notes, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • draft manuscript used for the preparation of part of the preceding typescript
• Newspaper cutting
  • Egyptian Mail Jan. 5. 1937 (Carter's annotation)
  • "Mummies May Be Re-Buried In Valley Of Kings | Selim Bey Hassan's Proposal"
  • Cutting from a single page, page number not recorded

Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook containing manuscript for Sketches I-II, also some enclosures including loose manuscript notes, a typewritten note, and a newspaper cutting.

• Sketches
  • 72 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
  • Carter's annotated page numbers, "1" to "72"
  • A Summary of Egyptian Chronology
  • Pages 1-2
  • Sketch I - Introductory
  • Pages 3-18
  • Contains one subsection, II, the title of this subsection, The Temporary Dwellings, is crossed through (cancelled)
  • Sketch II - An Account of Myself
  • Pages 19-72
  • Contains six subsections, I to VI

Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook containing manuscripts for Sketches VIII-IX and Sketch XI.

• 69 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
• Carter's annotated page numbers, "150" to "219"
• Sketch VIII. The Valley and the Royal Tombs
  • Pages 150-157
• Sketch IX. Tomb-Robberies and the Fate of the Royal Mummies
  • Original title A History of The Royal Mummies crossed through (cancelled)
  • Pages 158-194
  • Contains 7 subsections, II to VII
• [Sketch X. Freedom]
  • Carter's note on page 194 "For Sketch X. Freedom. Supp. ..."
• Sketch XI. The Finding of the Tomb of Amenophis I
  • Pages 195-219
  • Contains 1 subsection, II

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 notes on glass.

Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript drafts, unpublished articles and lectures.

Press cuttings and miscellaneous notes.

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)'
  • Not obviously related to Egypt or Carter

Two pages of Howard Carter's manuscript notes on Osiris and 'The wish for an Osiride burial and the retention of every royal prerogative'.

Howard Carter's artworks, all feature ancient Egyptian or Egypt-related subjects:

• an album of watercolours of birds and animals
• a watercolour painting of a Theban landscape
• a pencil sketch drawing of columns in the Luxor temple

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.

(for proposed second volume of Coptic and Greek Texts relating to the Hermopolite Monastery of Apa Apollo)
Notes, transcriptions, translations, photographs and photocopies of papyri, and correspondence, including:
Photographs, British Library, ref. Pap/653 A & B verso and recto.
Annotated photocopies relating to P. Belastingmuseum Rotterdam 94, P. Lond. V, P. Yale 1756, P. Vatic. Aphrod. 13, P. Graff II, and poll tax receipts.
Ex-Roca Puig Apollo text, correspondence.
Descriptions of poll tax receipts in draft for publication.
Photograph and notes, Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, F.1948/3.8.
Photographs, Christie’s V138 534/‘13’B; Christie’s ‘22’/BM EA 75322; Christie’s ‘20’, ‘25’, ‘11’, ‘14’ ‘17’, ‘27’.
Photographs (b&w) of Österreichische Nationalbibliothek collection: recto and verso of K 21.120; K 11.413; K 21.123; K 21.121.
Photographs (b&w) - P. Mon. Apollo II: unpublished Lansing BM EA papyri (probably belong in this file).
Draft chapter on tax demands.
Corrigenda to P. Mon. Apollo I & II; correspondence.
Lille papyri, correspondence.
Bawit photocopies and correspondence.
Schøyen Collection, correspondence and colour scans of MS 89/5.
Ede 3087A-C, printouts of b&w scans, photographs and notes.
Pct YBR nos. 4996, 4997, 4998, 5001, 5002, 3553, transcriptions and notes.
Coptic Room in the Louvre, correspondence.
Correspondence on tithes and an annotated article on Bawit texts with some notes.

Material for projected book on It is our father who writes: Orders from the Archimandrite’s office at the Monastery of Apollo at Bawit.
Manuscript with photocopies of illustrations, correspondence concerning papyrus Jonathan Byrd 36.2 and other papyri, and annotated photocopied articles.

Colour and b&w photos of Coptic papyri in the Ismailia Museum, Egypt (some by Gabra, others, apparently, by Sarah Clackson).
Transcription and translation of very fragmentary papyrus No. 1143.
Correspondence; notes; transcriptions and translations of, and comments on, selected papyri in Ismailia.
Notes on Bawit papyri.
Notes on excavations at Bawit and annotated photocopied articles.
Annotated photocopied articles on Apollo of Bawit/Titkooh.
‘Secondary literature: monasteries’ - annotated photocopied articles.
MIFAO indices of Bawit papyri by Anne Boud’hors and R. G. Coquin, and a photocopied article on the conservation of the papyri.
Photocopied annotated article on the ‘Apollo of the Monastery of Isaac’ by H. Quecke, 1983.

Much of this material seems to be later than Sarah Clackson’s dissertation, but probably predates her revision of it into a book.
Maps; photocopies of papyri; notes; photocopied annotated articles; thesis abstract.
Monastery sites: photocopied annotated articles.
Tithes: annotated photocopied articles and notes.
Formula: notes.
Annotated photocopied articles; notes; correspondence.