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.

Complete papers (see catalogue for more details).

Album of watercolours, drawings, and tracings of Egypt produced close to the end of Lloyd's life. It is a folio volume (33 x 44 cm, pages 32.7 x 43 cm), containing 135 watercolours and drawings (74 of which are full-page and 1 folding) and 10 tracings (8 folding). They are all mounted and most are captioned either on the image itself or on the mount. Captions on the mount seem to have been added when the album was put together after Lloyd's death. The album also contains a loose watercolour, a loose drawing and a loose lithographed portrait of George Lloyd by Prisse d'Avennes, who published it in his Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes and Modes of Life in the Valley of the Nile (1848). One of the drawings in the album is a pencil portrait of Lloyd sketched by Prince A. Soltykoff.

415 items of correspondence written by Miss Broome to her parents whilst working at Abydos between 1927 and 1937.

Fifteen items are groups of two letters (16, 35, 51, 55, 97, 111, 154, 198, 227, 268, 306, 319, 325, 363, 408, and 414, not all of them by Miss Broome), four of which are actually cards/postcards (16A, 306A, and 414A-B); item 156 is a group of three letters [= 429 letters and 4 cards/postcards in total].

A few letters include drawings/maps; seven letters include photographs (111, 123, 273-276, and 279); letter 337 includes a newspaper cutting; many of the letters include the original envelopes in which they were sent; some other letters mention the enclosure of additional items which are now lost.

View of the sunrise (or sunset) at the Giza pyramid field:

• monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.7 x 9.9 cm
• no annotations

Tutankhamun object cards with accompanying photographs, notes (some group notes listed below) and letters, compiled by Howard Carter and other members of the excavation team [TAA i.1.1-620]

• Most cards are manuscript records, as well as many original typescript records

• Many cards are illustrated with drawings of objects, or details of objects, by Howard Carter and A. C. Mace

  The object cards record:

  • Object number, main description of the object, location in the tomb, measurements, description of the object - Howard Carter and A. C. Mace (1922-1925)
  • Hieroglyphic inscriptions, transcriptions and translations - Mostly Alan H. Gardiner and P. E. Newberry, but some inscriptions are transcribed by Carter
  • Conservation records - Alfred Lucas and A. C. Mace (1922-1925)
  • Botanical and textile notes - P. E. Newberry
  • Photographic documentation - Harry Burton

  Other groups of notes filed with the object cards include:

  • Notes on the [ancient] robberies, by Howard Carter, Alfred Lucas and Lord Carnarvon
  • Notes on various aspects of the Annexe by Howard Carter (1-4, 10-43, 47-64), Alfred Lucas (5-9, 44-6) and A. H. Gardiner (41)
  • Notes and memoranda on various aspects of the tomb by Alfred Lucas
  • Notes on the contents of baskets by Howard Carter
  • Note on a wooden docket by A. H. Gardiner
  • Two letters from Howard Carter to A. H. Gardiner

Detail of a column capital from the Hathor temple at Philae, including faint notes of measurements:

• ink drawing
• mounted
• [on mount, verso] 'Chapiteaux restaurés Temple de Vénus Athor'. (ink note)
• 26.5 by 24.9 cm

Detail of a column capital from the Hathor temple at Philae, including faint notes of measurements:

• ink drawing
• mounted
• [on mount, verso] 'Chapiteaux restaurés Temple de Vénus Athor'. (ink note)
• 26.7 by 25.2 cm

Details of six columns from the Hathor temple at Philae, with faint details of the Hathor face and intricate painted details of the capitals. In between the columns on the right side of the paper is a faint pencil sketch of a column structure:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, centre] 'CHAPITEAUX du TEMPLE d'HATOR PHÏÆ 1er au Nord, 2e, 4e, 3e, 5e, 6e au Sud'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] 'CHAPITEAUX. TEMPLE D'ATHOR Ile de Philae'. (ink note)
• 35.9 by 45.6 cm

View of Saqqara with the pyramids visible in the distance:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'Zaqqarah'. (ink note)
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Vue des Pyramides de Zaqqarah'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] '4. Pyramides de Zaqqarah'. (ink note)
• 17.3 by 12.4 cm

An idealised view of Giza, with the Sphinx, valley temple, and the Great Pyramid visible in the distance:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Monument à élever sur la grande pyramide'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] '3. Monument à élever sur la grande pyramide'. (ink note)
• 17.5 by 12.4 cm

View of the Great pyramid at Giza:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'La Grande Pyramide'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] '2. Pyramides de Gyzeh'. (ink note)
• 17.6 by 12.5 cm

View of the pyramids at Giza and the Nile:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Vue des pyramides de Gyzeh'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] '1. Pyramides de Gyzeh'. (ink note)
• 17.4 by 12.4 cm

View of the colossi of Ramesses II from the Great Temple of Abu Simbel:

• watercolour
• mounted
• 48.5 by 39.3 cm

View of both rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel from the river Nile:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, verso] 'Vue d'ensemble des temples d'Isamboul'. (ink note)
• 48.3 by 36.8 cm

View of the remains of the Great Temple at Kom Ombo from the river Nile:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, verso] 'KOUM-OMBOS, Vue générale'. (ink note)
• 21.8 by 14.5 cm

Plan of the Great Temple at Kom Ombo:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'Nil'. (ink note)
• [on mount, verso] 'KOUM-OMBOS Plan'. (ink note)
• 31.5 by 18.1 cm

Restored section of the temple of Isis at Philae:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom right corner] 'restauration de Philae'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] 'ILE DE PHILÆ'. (ink note)
• 8.7 by 8 cm

View of the remains of the Great Temple at Kom Ombo:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom right corner] 'Koum ombos'. (ink note)
• [on mount, verso] 'KOUM-OMBOS'. (ink note)
• 29.3 by 13.4 cm

View of the eastern side of temple of Isis at Philae, including the Kiosk of Trajan:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, verso] 'ILE DE PHILÆ, Côté Est'. (ink note)
• 22.6 by 15.3 cm

View of the hypostyle area of the temple of Isis at Philae:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, verso] 'ILE DE PHILÆ, Grand Temple [ ] Philae Entree'. (ink note)
• 27.3 by 19.3 cm

View of the Nile and nearby buildings at Aswan:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom right corner] 'ASSOUAN 5 [ ]'. (ink note)
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Vue d'Assouan (Moyenne Egypte.)'. (pencil note)
• 17.7 by 12.5 cm

View of the Nile at Nubia:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Vue du Nil'. (pencil note)
• 17.7 by 12.4 cm

View of the temple area at Dendera:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Caravane, près Kalabsché (Nubie.)' (pencil note)
• 17.5 by 12.4 cm

View of the Nile at Nubia:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Vue du Nil'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] 'Assouan et Environs, Egypte'. (ink note)
• 17.7 by 12.5 cm

Barque with a naos shrine in the centre, and possibly a barque sphinx at the bow. Possibly from a tomb scene:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'Thebes'. (pencil note)
• 18 by 7.7 cm

Barque with three men standing inside and wedjat eyes painted on the exterior, possibly from a tomb scene:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'Thebes'. (pencil note)
• 18 by 6.3 cm

Boats from Beni Hasan tomb relief scenes. On the upper half is a boat with several rowers and men at the bow steering, followed by another boat with a larger standing figure at the bow; the second boat on the right within the fourth register at (6) of the tomb of Khnumhotep (Tomb 3, Beni Hasan). The lower left side sketch shows the stern of a boat found on the left within the fifth register at (12) of the tomb of Amenemhat (Tomb 2, Beni Hasan), the lower right side sketch is a detailed boat from the right side within the sixth register at (15) also of the tomb of Amenemhat (Tomb 2, Beni Hasan):

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top right] 'grand prêtre'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, centre] 'culottes et robes blanches (probablement des pretres)', 'barque du defunt'. (pencil notes)
• [on recto, bottom left] 'il y a parfois 2 gouvernails', 'corps mort'. (pencil notes)
• [on recto, bottom right] 'cette surface listé en jaune ressemble à une bandiere (drapeau) ou rideau pr cacher les femmes lorsqu'elles ont besoin d'etre seule'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, bottom right corner] 'BENI HASSAN'. (pencil note)
• 21.6 by 15.7 cm

Boat with rows of men with oars, middle boat from a larger relief scene on the fifth register at (12) of the tomb of Amenemhat (Tomb 2, Beni Hasan). On the upper corners of the watercolour are small separate sketches of the details of shields on the cabin from the boat at the right side:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top] 'la reine dans la barque avec 1 ou 2 femmes' and 'qu'est ce que cela? ne serait ce pas une [ ] pour [ ] du maitre de la barque qui est assis au dessous? ou pr [ ] la voile?'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, bottom edge] 'chaque marin a un petit cotte ou tablier blanc dans certaines barques on voit quelquefois les marins assis les extremités de la barque sont blanches'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, bottom right corner] 'BENI HASSAN'. (pencil note)
• 21.6 by 17.1 cm

Barque from a relief scene in side-room D at (9) in the tomb of Ramesses III (KV 11, Valley of the Kings):

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom edge] faint handwriting, now difficult to read
• 21.6 by 17 cm