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Percy Edward Newberry Collection
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Dawson, Warren Royal - correspondence

Correspondence from Warren Royal Dawson including on: situation regarding excavation work in Egypt; translation of hieroglyphs; publications Dawson is working on; references to the tomb of Ay; funerary papyri of the 21st Dynasty; Queen Nozme; 21st dynasty burial sites; Newberry's articles on the Pig and the Olive; discussion of various Egyptologists in relation to biographies Dawson is writing and draft replies from Newberry; requesting collection sale catalogues.

Note:
MSS 12/17 is also numbered 343
MSS 12/18 is also numbered A.199
MSS 12/19 is also numbered 343a

Davis, Theodore M. (1837-1915) - correspondence

Correspondence including: asking Newberry to write a description of a tomb; describing the condition of the tomb; reference to photographs of the tomb. Also includes letter to Carter relating to him painting a coffin and referring to correspondence with Maspero. Also includes invitation sent to Davis to a meeting to observe whether any phenomena takes place on the anniversary of Pharaoh Akhnaton's death in the Valley of the Queens, 26 January 1909.

Note:
MSS 12/4 is also numbered 16
MSS 12/5 is also numbered A.279
MSS 12/6 is also numbered A 280
MSS 12/8 is also numbered 292

Davies, Norman de Garis (1865-1941) - correspondence

Correspondence from Norman de Garis Davies (1865-1941) including on: excavation at Meryra; arranging for Newberry to bring certain things with him when he visits; trees in the garden of Akhenaten; the tomb of Mentu-her-khepeshef; travel plans to Egypt; shrine at the tomb of Puyemre; identification of Ay; publications; tomb of User; tomb of Rekhmire; dealings with Bayoumi and Droiton; death of Mrs Griffith; news of Steindorff in Germany (1938); World War Two.

Note:
MSS 11/27 is also numbered 19
MSS 11/28 is also numbered 28
MSS 11/29 is also numbered 17
MSS 11/30 is also numbered 44
MSS 11/31 is also numbered 43
MSS 11/32 is also numbered 60
MSS 11/33 is also numbered 56
MSS 11/37 is also numbered 357
MSS 11/38 is also numbered 374
MSS 11/41 is also numbered 260
MSS 11/42 is also numbered 311
MSS 11/55 is also numbered 226
MSS 11/56 is also numbered 201
MSS 11/73 is also numbered A 108

Davies, Nina de Garis - correspondence

Correspondence from Nina de Garis Davies to Newberry and Mrs Newberry including asking Newberry's advice on camping at Beni Hasan with Rosalind Moss; details of travel and travel plans; cataloguing Newberry's collection of textiles.

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MSS 11/22 is also numbered 18a
MSS 11/23 is also numbered 18
MSS 11/25 is also numbered 257

Dale, (Sir) Alfred William Winslow (1855-1921) - correspondence

Correspondence from Sir Alfred William Winslow Dale (1855-1921) (Vice Chancellor, Liverpool University) including on appointment to and resignation from Professorship at the University of Liverpool; and report of Selection Committee which includes details Newberry's career and that of John Garstang up to 1907.

Note:
MSS 11/5 is also numbered 348
MSS 11/6 is also numbered A 240

Cylinder seal impressions

Notebook housed in an envelope containing cuttings and drawings of cylinder seals and impressions from Abydos, including the tombs of Khasekhemwy and Neterkhet (also known as Djoser). Pages of the notebook have been numbered by Peter Kaplony on 26th November 1959. Notebook also includes loose pages of draft plates for Newberry, P.E., 'Impressions of seals from Abydos', in Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, Volume 2, p.130 with plates xxii-xxv (1909) (OEB 146367).

This notebook was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Scarabs and Cylinders'.

Crum, Walter Ewing (1865-1944) - correspondence

Correspondence from Walter Ewing Crum including on: Crum's research; requesting Newberry to look out for Coptic items to purchase; Griffith's obituary.

Also includes postcard sent to Walter Ewing Crum c.1913 relating to a passage in an arabic text and the form of the name of a village called Dimokrat near Arment.

Note:
MSS 10/44 is also numbered A.127
MSS 10/45 is also numbered A 363
MSS 10/46 is also numbered 13
MSS 10/47 is also numbered 59
MSS 10/52 is also numbered A 197

Crane Dance

Folder titled 'Crane Dance' containing notes, drafts, correspondence, tracings, cuttings and drawings relating to the Crane Dance.

Also includes:
-Postcard and card with pictures of cranes
-Letter from Battiscombe Gunn referring to an article by Newberry on the Crane Dance, 14 January 1938
-Versions of draft titled 'The Crane Dance in Ancient Egypt'
-Draft on cranes in Egypt, c.1940s
-Notes on Muu dancers
-Notes on the Muu head-dress
-Draft titled 'The Crane Dance'
-Letter from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to Essie Newberry on the Crane Dance with related extract enclosed from 'The Yearling', 29 March 1939
-Cuttings of scenes from the southern wall of the tomb TT15 Tetiky (TopBib i.26) taken from Carnavon, Carter et al, Five years' explorations at Thebes : a record of work done 1907-1911, (1912) (OEB 136376)
-Postcard with bas-relief from the tomb of Ankhafitka [Nenkheftka], Saqqara, in the Cairo Museum, CG 1533 [TopBib iii2.580(4)]
-Notes on the labyrinth, swastika and Dipylon geometric style

Also includes reference to the tomb of Sehetepibre (TopBib i.679) and the location of the Ramesseum papyri.

This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Special Subjects 1'.

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