Steuer, Robert O. - correspondence
- NEWB2/690
- File
- 1933 - 1937
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from Robert O. Steuer including relating to photographs of olive trees in Palestine and his publications.
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Steuer, Robert O. - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from Robert O. Steuer including relating to photographs of olive trees in Palestine and his publications.
Stevens, Dorothy - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Letter from Dorothy Stevens and two draft replies from Newberry relating to his collection of embroideries and movement of belongings during the Second World War, as well as a small glass vase.
Stevens, Edmund W. - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Letter from Edmund W. Stevens (Ginn and Company Publishers) relating to engravings of a miniature of Queen Tiy.
Stone, William - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Letter from William Stone relating to travel in Egypt.
Note:
This letter is also numbered A.261
Stoneborough, Jerome - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Letter from Jerome Stoneborough including relating to his family and work in Vienna and enclosing correspondence with Baron Weisz relating to an inscription on a stela belonging to him (3 letters, February 1932).
Sykes, Ella C. - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Letter from Ella C. Sykes (Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society) on Newberry's election as a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Tadris, Agoybi - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Letter from Agoybi Tadris requesting employment.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from G.A.D. Tait (Eton College) relating to the museum at Eton College of Egytian antiquities (known as the Myers Museum) including refurbishment, display of objects, objects of interest, visits by Newberry and his donations and assistance, exhibitions, affects of World War Two, and the involvement of the 'boys'. Also includes draft letter from Newberry on his activities during the War (1943).
Tankard, Elaine - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Letter from Elaine Tankard (Liverpool Museum) relating to whether Newberry's Egyptian collection survived the destruction caused by a fire bomb in 1941.
Tattersall, M.H. - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Letter from M.H. Tattersall [incomplete] relating to ancient Egyptian chronology.
Tattersall, W.M. - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Letter from W.M. Tattersall (Manchester Museum) relating to the donation of a collection of Egyptian scarabs.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Copy of text from TT50 Neferhotep (TopBib i.95) with annotations.
The Editor of Nature - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from the Editor of Nature relating to the publication of Newberry's presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1923), and obituaries of Sir Robert Mond (1938) and Howard Carter (1939).
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder titled 'Syria and Wn [Western] Asia'.
Includes:
-Notes on foreign place names
-Notes on Syria
-Notes on Phoenicia, Retenu, Philistia, Naharin and Arabia
-Notes and draft on Byblos
The Second Intermediate Period
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Notebook containing a draft titled 'The Second Intermediate Period' with chapters on the Vizier 'Ankhu, Amenemhat Sehotepibre, the chancellor Senbi or Senebi, Khensemes, Neb-ankh and Nubkhaes.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder titled 'Heb-Sed' containing notes, drawings and cuttings relating to the Sed festival and related ceremonies.
Includes:
-Newspaper cutting titled 'Think Heb Sed Feast is King's Remarriage - Professor Newberry Argues That it Coincides With Discarding of Old Wives for New', New York Times, 1923
-Two letters from Battiscombe Gunn relating to the Sed festival, one dated 26 May 1920
-Cutting from publication of an image titled 'The canonisation of Joan of Arc: The Pope leaving the Vatican for St. Peter's in the sedia gestatoria under a baldaquin, with two flabella (ceremonial fans) behind, 29 May 1920
-Notes on records of Sed festivals
-Notes on rules which regulated the right to the throne
-Two notebooks containing notes on the Sed festival, one with the number 4 on the front (notebooks no longer contain many pages)
-Notes and drawings from Naville, E., The Festival-Hall of Osorkon II in the great Temple of Bubastis (1887-1889), (London, 1892) (OEB 146149) referred to by Newberry as 'NFH'
-Notes titled 'The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Egypt'
-Text of a lecture on the Sed festival
This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Religion 1'.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder titled 'The god i3?s' including notes on i3?s, the scorpion macehead (Ashmolean Museum, AN1896-1908.E3632), the cuirass or leather garment worn by early kings of Egypt, and leather working. Also includes drafts of a letter to Alan Gardiner, c.1946, and a draft titled 'The shepherd's crook'.
This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Religion 1'.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder titled 'Mandrake (Scorpion King)' containing a handbound notebook titled 'Mandrake' in which where are notes on a hieroglyphic sign in the shape of a rosette which precedes the royal name on the Scorpion King's Macehead (Ashmolean Museum, AN1896-1908.E3632) and which Newberry identifies as the mandrake.
Includes:
-Notes on occurences of the hieroglyphic sign
-Tracings of occurences of the hieroglyphic sign including handle of a flint knife (Cairo Museum, CG 14265), an ivory spoon and an Astrabad vessel
-Small and large photograph of a mandrake plant
This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Flora and Fauna 1'.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder titled 'Olive' and numbered 4, containing two handbound notebooks labelled 'Olive Tree' and 'Olive Oil', an unbound notebook titled 'Olive Tree - The Maryut Region', and a mounted photograph of an olive tree with note on the back 'Gethsemane - "Tree of the Agony"'.
Notebook titled 'Olive Tree' includes:
-Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 150th Session, 31 December 1937 containing 'On some African species of the genus Olea and the original home of the cultivated Olive-tree' by Prof. Percy E. Newberry, 28 October 1937 (OEB 146386), including handwritten notes in the margins
-Typed draft titled 'The Cultivated Olive-tree'
-Handwritten notes on the olive, names for the olive in different languages including by the berbers
-Tracings from Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1900. The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty. Part 2. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (OEB 147184) of early attestations of tehenu oil or oil from Libya
-Newspaper cutting on the olive in Tunisia
-Typed draft on the thnw tree being the same as the b3k tree
Notes include reference to 'NB [Notebook] 30' and 'envelope Olive Names'.
Notebook titled 'Olive Tree' includes:
-Notes on variant oil names with bibliographic references
-Typed draft on tehenu oil or oil from Libya
-Typed draft on the thnw tree being the same as the b3k tree
-Typed draft on the b3k tree and its oil
-Draft titled 'Note on M.Loret's identification of the b3k tree with the Moringa'
-Draft on the Moringa tree and its oil
-Draft on the translation of the Moringa tree and seed pod
-Draft on the translation of Nhh, a generic word for denoting oil
-Notes on unguents
-Cuttings of photographs of Menna and his wife being offered a bouquet (TopBib i.137(5)) and Menna and family fishing and fowling (TopBib i.138(12)) from tomb TT69 Menna
-Tracings from Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1900. The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty. Part 1. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (OEB 147184)
-Notes on Shezmu
-Notes,drawings, tracings and a photograph on olive presses
Notes include references to 'NB29' and 'NB38'.
Notebook titled 'Olive Tree - The Maryut Region' includes:
-Draft on Athena and olives
-Typed notes on the olive trees including olive trees in the Mediterranean, species of olive tree, conditions for growing olives, and development of the cultivated olive tree.
-Typed and handwritten versions of a draft titled 'The Maryut Region'
-Typed draft titled 'The Oases of the Libyan Desert'
This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Flora and Fauna 1'.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder titled 'The Pig and Seth' containing research material relating to Newberry, J.E., 'The Pig and the Cult-Animal of Set' in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 14, No. 3/4 (Nov., 1928), pp. 211-225 (OEB 146390). Includes offprint of the article with handwritten annotations. Also includes corresponce from Alan Gardiner, Herbert Winlock and Harold Nelson, 1909-1926.
This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Religion 2'.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder titled 'Sistra' containing notes, correspondence, tracings, drawings and cuttings relating to the sistrum.
Includes:
-Copy of inscriptions on block statue of Espekashuti (Cairo Museum, CG 42232) found in the Karnak Cachette (TopBib ii.149)
-Letter from Ernest Thomas, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, relating to the interpretation of a monogram in Beni Hasan III, 5 April 1932
-Extract from a letter from Major MacPherson, Cairo, to E. E. Evans-Pritchard relating to the sistrum, 26 November 1935
-Letter to Charles Seligman relating to the sistrum with tracing, 22 September 1934
-Response from Charles Seligman to the letter above relating to the sistrum, 25th September 1934
This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Special Subjects 3'.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder titled 'Souls. Totemism' although 'Totemism' has been crossed out. Includes notes on the soul, the after life, and Thoth. Also includes handwritten draft titled 'The Sacred Ibis'.
This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Religion 1'.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder titled 'w3s-sceptre' containing notes, draft, tracings and drawings relating to the w3s or was sceptre. Includes photograph of a statue of a nome triad: King, Hathor Mistress-of-the-Sycamore and Theban nome-god (Cairo Museum, JE 40678) from the pyramid complex of Menkaure (TopBib iii.28)
Also includes drafts of Newberry, P.E. 'The [was] Sceptre', in Studi in memoria di Ippolito Rosellini, Volume I, pp.269-72, (1949) (OEB 2130).
This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Special Subjects 3'.
Thomas, Ernest S. - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Letter from Ernest S. Thomas inviting Newberry to give a lecture to the Oxford University Anthropological Society.
Thompson, (Sir) D’Arcy Wentworth - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson including relating to his research on the Great Frigatebird; an Egyptian dog like a greyhound; philology; comments on Newberry's paper on the Shepherd's Crook.
Also includes draft reply from Newberry referring to Thompson's question about dogs in ancient Egypt, war work and the crane dance (1942).
Note:
MSS 43/45 is also numbered A.100
Thompson, (Sir) Herbert - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from Sir Herbert Thompson including relating to supporting Peet (1910), research on the lily in Egypt and his health and library (1942).
Thompson, Charles, John Samuel - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from Charles John Samuel Thompson (d.1942) inviting Newberry to give a paper to the Section of The History of Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine.
Thompson, Reginald Campbell - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from Reginald Campbell Thompson (1876-1941) including thanking Newberry for a dinner party.
Thornton, Douglas - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from Douglas Thornton including relating to travel to Port Sudan and fragments of pottery and glass brought back.
Thorpe, Jocelyn - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from Jocelyn Thorpe including relating to his nomination by Newberry to the Burlington Fine Arts Club (1923) and apologising for not using an article by Newberry (1938).