Correspondence from Felix Walter Warre (Sotheby & Co.) relating to the sale of Egyptian antiquities including the execution of Howard Carter's will and the sale of his Egyptian objects.
Correspondence from John Ward including referring to Newberry's excavation work, Archibald Sayce and meeting in Luxor (1899); congratulating Newberry on the publication of Rekhmara (1900); and congratulating Newberry on his marriage and moving to Kent after the death of his wife (1907).
Correspondence from Sir Oscar Emanuel Warburg (1876-1937) relating to botanical research and Newberry visiting with a sketch map to help him find the house.
Note: MSS 44/89 is also numbered 34a MSS 44/90 is also numbered 34 MSS 44/91 is also numbered A 130
Correspondence from Harold Wallis relating to Newberry's purchase of articles from his collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, including receipt of payment signed by Alice and Violet Wallis (1933).
Note: MSS 44/85 is also numbered 26a. Warren Dawson's list of correspondence includes MSS 44/84 however this letter is now missing.
Correspondence from Phyllis Walker (Niece and heir of Howard Carter) relating to the execution of Howard Carter's estate.
Includes correspondence relating to: publishing an unpublished manuscript started by Carter on his early career; transfer of files to Oxford including copy of a letter of receipt from the Ashmolean museum; copy of two letters from E.T. Leeds on donation of files; work during World War Two and moving (1942); news of Mrs Burton (1943); copyright infringement (1945); reference to Howard Carter's paintings including of birds, Deir el-Bahari and the Ramesseum; sale of furniture at Sotheby's; Executors Spink and Captain Ingram's handling of objects and objects arriving broken to the Metropolitan Museum, New York; Burton's help with the sale of objects; copy of letter from Etienne Drichton (Director General, Cairo Museum) relating to the donation of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Cairo Museum (1940).
Also includes: letter of thanks to Mrs Newberry (1939) and on the death of Harry Burton (1940); copy of letter from Alan Gardiner to Phyllis Walker on the donation of Howard Carter's records relating to the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Ashmolean and copyright ownership (1945); copy of letter from E.T. Leeds (Keeper, Ashmolean Museum) thanking Walker for the gift of Carter's records (1945).
Correspondence from John Walker including relating to visiting Newberry and the publication of a book translated by Walker from Arabic on folk medicine among the modern Egyptian peasantry.
Correspondence from James Herbert Walker including comments on Rekhmara and a paper by Newberry for the Society of Biblical Archaeology. Also includes a letter referring to Newberry's plans for excavation with the Marquis of Northampton and finding his lost dog.
Note: MSS 44/54 is also numbered A.210 MSS 44/58 is also numbered A.269
3 letters from Wainwright, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Wainwright. Wainwight's gifts of publications and archive materials to the Griffith Institute and to Černý.
Correspondence from Gerald Averay Wainwright including relating to travel to Egypt; a stela in the Cairo Museum; the tomb of Teti-ki; 'finances of independent Egypt' and the Egyptian Railway (1925); Newberry's research on nome standards (1932); hieroglyphic sign of a seven petaled flower.
Note: MSS 44/44 is also numbered 208 MSS 44/45 is also numbered A.131
Correspondence from William Gillan Waddell including relating to his book on Manetho, research on Egyptian chronology, the translation of words including the Latin words baca and baculum, news from Egypt including via Mrs Ghorbal (1933).
Correspondence from Alan John Bayard Wace including relating to his work at the VictoriaAlbert Museum and embroideries.
Includes correspondence relating to: embroideries belonging to Newberry; his appointment to the V (1924); requesting information on vase found in tomb of Thutmose IV inscribed 'Vase of Keftiu'; inviting Newberry to give lecture on textiles; arranging to visit embroidery collections including Newberry's; the purchase of embroideries in Egypt; trip to America (1929); donation of a Persian papier mache panel by Newberry (1932); olives in Greece (1933); on appointment to the University of Cambridge; silphium columns; requesting reference for Pendlebury.
Note: MSS 44/5 is also numbered 294 MSS 44/9 is also numbered 25 MSS 44/14 is also numbered A.125 MSS 44/15 is also numbered A.126 MSS 44/16 is also numbered A.125a MSS 44/20 is also numbered A.133
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.
Folder titled 'Vine and Wine' containing a handbound notebook titled 'Vine and Wine'. Notebook contains notes on the cultivation of vines, royal vineyards, sealings of officials of the vineyards, wine jar inscriptions, wine, sources of wine, wine production, wine strainers including two cuttings of photographs of wine strainers.
This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Flora and Fauna 1'.
6 letters from Vercoutter, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Vercoutter. Photographs of texts from Egypt and the British Museum; exchange of research materials; personal matters.
1 letter from Veale. Formal conferment of the MA (Oxon) degree to Černý after his election to Professor, as well as a non-stipendiary Professorial Fellowship at Queen's College.
Various drafts for articles on "The System of Writing in Ancient Egypt", including Griffith MSS 1.52 published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 30 (1900), 153-159 (OEB 140801).