Correspondence from Wilhelm Spiegelberg including relating to: research; his marriage (1898); excavation plans (1898); thanking Newberry; political situation in Egypt (1898); publications; work on inscriptions; arranging to visit Newberry and having Newberry to stay; life after the First World War including restrictions on travel, work, and family news (1921); comments on papers by Newberry; teaching Mr Bellairs Egyptology (1928); management of the Egyptian museum, Cairo (1930).

MSS 41/31 includes a watercolour sketch, which is a self portrait of Spiegelberg working at a desk surrounded by papers and books (1902).

MSS 41/34 is a letter to Lord Carnarvon relating to a chapter for publication and thanking him for the time working for him (1911).

Also includes two picture postcards, one of 17 Daniel Hirtz Strasse, Strasbourg and one of the Piramidi di Terra sul Renon.

Note:
MSS 41/12 is also numbered A 232
MSS 41/13 is also numbered A 361
MSS 41/14 is also numbered A 262
MSS 41/15 is also numbered 54
MSS 41/17 is also numbered 55
MSS 41/18 is also numbered 44
MSS 41/19 is also numbered 46
MSS 41/20 is also numbered 45
MSS 41/21 is also numbered 53
MSS 41/22 is also numbered 52
MSS 41/23 is also numbered 49
MSS 41/24 is also numbered 48
MSS 41/25 is also numbered 47
MSS 41/26 is also numbered 50
MSS 41/27 is also numbered 45
MSS 41/32 is also numbered 322
MSS 41/37 is also numbered A.317
MSS 41/41 is also numbered 40
MSS 41/43 is also numbered 32

Letter from R. Phane Spiers (d.1916) relating to a publication by Flinders Petrie on the Pyramid of Meyden.

Note:
This letter is also numbered A.283

Letter from M. Sprengling (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) requesting a contribution towards a portrait of James Henry Breasted.

Correspondence from Flaxman C.J. Spurrell (1842-1915) relating to the analysis of fragments of colour for Newberry, research on sickles, and a collection of vegetable substances.

Letter from Otto Stapf (1857-1933) (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) including relating to the identification of a rose.

Correspondence from William Thomas Stearn (Royal Horticulture Society) relating to botany and gardening including identification of plants, Moringa and his research on the genus Allium (onions). Also includes draft reply from Newberry on the pomegranate.

Correspondence mostly to Essie Newberry with some correspondence to Newberry including relating news of his family in the period around and during the Second World War. Also includes reference to other Egyptologists in Germany, excavation work at Aniba, and work on a Coptic Grammar.

Also includes draft reply from Newberry on what he did during the Second World War and damage from bombs (1946).

Several letters are in German.

Also includes photograph of Steindorff at his home in California (1946).

Note:
MSS 42/2 is also numbered A.218
MSS 42/3 is also numbered A.231
MSS 42/4 is also numbered A.254
MSS 42/5 is also numbered 21
MSS 42/6 is also numbered 18
MSS 42/8 is also numbered 33
MSS 42/12 is also numbered A.118
MSS 42/13 is also numbered A.119
MSS 42/14 is also numbered A.117
MSS 42/15 is also numbered A.115

Correspondence from Thomas Smith Sterling relating to travel, his work and asking Newberry to write an article on Persian embroidery.

Note:
MSS 43/1 is also numbered A.112
MSS 43/2 is also numbered A.112a

Correspondence from Robert O. Steuer including relating to photographs of olive trees in Palestine and his publications.

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.

Letter from Edmund W. Stevens (Ginn and Company Publishers) relating to engravings of a miniature of Queen Tiy.

Letter from William Stone relating to travel in Egypt.

Note:
This letter is also numbered A.261

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).

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.

Letter from Agoybi Tadris requesting employment.

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).

Letter from Elaine Tankard (Liverpool Museum) relating to whether Newberry's Egyptian collection survived the destruction caused by a fire bomb in 1941.

Letter from M.H. Tattersall [incomplete] relating to ancient Egyptian chronology.

Correspondence from Sir Alan Gardiner including on research, travel, his family, publication of articles in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, and contemporary Egyptologists.

Includes correspondence relating to: the Ramasseum papyri; inscriptions including the inscriptions of Mes; work in Egypt including at the tombs of Amenemapt, User and Rekhmara, and the Osireon at Abydos; occurrences of names; the Carnavon tablet; Gardiner’s catalogue of Theban tombs; requesting notes from Newberry on tombs including the tomb of Khety; Gardiner's copy of an inscription compared to a copy by Max Müller; the Egypt Exploration Society (EES); Blackman taking pupils out to Egypt in 1919; employment of Mary Jonas as secretary to the EES; exhibition at the Burlington Fine Arts Club; confirmation of Newberry’s publication of scene in Tomb of Huy; work of Amice Calverley; funding for the EES; Newberry’s resignation from the EES; purchase of papyri for the British Museum; philology and deciphering hieroglyphs; Carter’s papers on tomb of Tutankhamun; the Second World War including news of Gardiner’s son John; research on the owl; agricultural land in Egypt; Menes; the Turin papyrus; Nitocris; writing a companion to Egyptian studies; obituary of Petrie written by Newberry; death of Paul Smither; Miss Phyllis Walker's donation of Howard Carter's records to the Ashmolean and infringement of copyright; contact with German Egyptologists after World War Two; Bonomi papers; etc.

Egyptologists mentioned include Henry Lyons, Flinders Petrie, T. Eric Peet, Arthur Weigall, Pierre Lacau, Aylward Blackman, Raymond Faulkner.

Also includes some draft replies from Newberry and letters from Gardiner to Howard Carter relating to the publication of an article.

Also includes page of notes on names titled Sethe and notes on an article on Sebknofru and ‘On Transcriptions’.

A few letters include notes on the back mostly of one or two words.

Note:
MSS 18/1 is also numbered 5
MSS 18/2 is also numbered A.249
MSS 18/3 is also numbered 31
MSS 18/7 is also numbered A.1
MSS 18/8 is also numbered 67
MSS 18/10 is also numbered A.99
MSS 18/13 is also numbered A.302
MSS 18/18 is also numbered 354
MSS 18/19 is also numbered A.238
MSS 18/20 is also numbered A.241
MSS 18/21 is also numbered A.5
MSS 18/22 is also numbered A.295
MSS 18/29 is also numbered 263
MSS 18/31 is also numbered 288
MSS 18/32 is also numbered 253
MSS 18/35 is also numbered A.10
MSS 18/36 is also numbered A.11
MSS 18/37 is also numbered A.22
MSS 18/40 is also numbered 308
MSS 18/46 is also numbered 220
MSS 18/47 is also numbered 1a
MSS 18/48 is also numbered 1
MSS 18/55 is also numbered A.150
MSS 18/56 is also numbered A.137
MSS 18/57 is also numbered 151a
MSS 18/58 is also numbered A.157
MSS 18/59 is also numbered A.138
MSS 18/60 is also numbered A.138
MSS 18/61 is also numbered A.140
MSS 18/62 is also numbered A.141
MSS 18/66 is also numbered 143

Letter of thanks from Foad Boghdady, Cairo Museum.

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

Correspondence from Bruce Stirling Ingram (Editor, The Illustrated London News) relating to photographs and illustrations for publication and lectures by Newberry. Includes references to the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun and Howard Carter's negotiations with the Egyptian authorities.

Includes:

• Cutting of an image of a clay sealing
• Notes on Morgan, J., 'L'Humanité prehistorique', Paris 1924 (OEB 145667)
• Notes on a bow from the tomb of Tutankhamun
• Notes on a chisel-ended arrowhead in Woolley, 'Excavations at Ur, 1929-30', (London, 1930) p.387
• Handwritten and typewritten notes on the Gebel el 'Arak knife handle (Louvre Museum, E 11517) (TopBib v.107).
• Typed and handwritten notes on types of predynastic pottery
• Notes on a model sarcophagus in the Museum of Cairo

Correspondence from Alfred Lucas including relating to: arranging to visit Newberry; cleaning an inscribed bowl; response to criticisms by Newberry of a book by Lucas; wish to see a wooden tongue from Tututankhamun's shrine; Walter Segal and his study of furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Note:
MSS 29/50 is also numbered 217a
MSS 29/51 is also numbered 217
MSS 29/52 is also numbered 13
MSS 29/55 is also numbered A.107

Folder titled ‘Dynasty XVIII T.IV A.III Amarna excluding Ay’. The folder contains several envelopes, listed below, with material relating to the 18th Dynasty.

Envelopes include:

1. Notes on the tomb of Tuthmosis IV (TopBib i.559), including sketches of the tomb, notes and sketches of items found in the tomb, including a throne and wooden boats.
   Includes:

   • Notes and copy of hieroglyphs on wooden panels from sides of a throne (Right side: Boston Museum, 03.1131; Left side: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 30.8.45) (TopBib i.561)
   • Notes and sketch, a fragment of a wooden fan (Cairo Museum, 46095) (TopBib i.561)
   • Notes and sketches on the back of a throne (Cairo Museum, 46096) (TopBib i.561)
   • Notes and sketch, right side of a chariot interior (Cairo Museum, 46097) (TopBib i.560)

2. Notes relating to inscriptions in tomb TT64 belonging to Hekerneheh (TopBib i.128), including inscriptions from the vestibule of the tomb used in Newberry, Percy E. 1928. 'The sons of Tuthmosis IV.' Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), 82-85 (OEB 146401). Also includes a letter from H.E. Winlock on work in TT64 (2nd April 1925).

3. Notes and inscriptions relating to Tuthmosis IV and his family. This material also references and relates to Newberry, Percy E. 1903. Extracts from my notebooks (VII). Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 25, 357-362 (OEB 187707).
   Including:

   • Copy of inscription on statuette of Hekerneheh found by Newberry in 1898 in tomb TT63.
   • Notes, tracings, drawings and translations of wooden mummy labels with hieratic inscriptions (National Museum Scotland, 1956.154-67) found by Alexander Rhind in the tomb of Amenophis III (TopBib i.671)
   • Drawing of a wooden label of Amenemapet, daughter of Tuthmosis IV, purchased by Newberry at Thebes in 1901
   • Photographs of ostracon with hieratic inscription (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 90.6.3)

4. Notes, drafts and copies of inscriptions relating to Amenhotep III, including on his wife Queen Tyi [Tiy; Tiye], father Tuthmosis IV, and daughters.

5. Notes on Amenhotep IV [or Akhenaton], Nefertiti, Semenkhkare, Yuya, tombs at El Amarna and history of the 18th Dynasty.
   Includes:

   • Notes relating to Newberry, Percy E. 1928. Akhenaten's eldest son-in-law 'Ankhkheprurē'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), 3-9 (OEB 146342), and Tomb 139 (TopBib i.252), including tracing of slab (shown in figure 4, p.8).
   • Family tree of Amenhotep III
   • Notes on the chronology of tombs at El Amarna
   • Notes on Petrie, W. M. Flinders 1894. Tell el Amarna. London: Methuen & Co. (OEB 147222)

6. Notes on Tutankhamun, including on the tomb and copies of inscriptions.
   Includes:

   • Letter from Howard Carter to Newberry on the identity of Tutankhamun and the meaning of an inscription on a whip from his tomb, 3rd December 1931
   • Copy of inscription from the vestibule of TT64 used in Newberry, Percy E. 1928. 'The sons of Tuthmosis IV.' In: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), 82-85 (OEB 146401) (see item 2 in this folder).
   • Notes on botanical specimens found in the tomb and letter from Royal Botanic Gardens Kew on the analysis of a piece of wood from the shrine of Tutankhamun, 3rd July 1925

7. Notes, sketches and copies of inscriptions from the Rock Chapel of Min at el-Salamuni, Akhmin (TopBib v.17). Also includes notes, not by Newberry, titled ‘Suggestions as to P.E.N.’s copy of Ay inscription, Akhmin’.

8. Notes, sketches, sketch plans of the tomb, copies of inscriptions from KV23 of Ay (TopBib i.550).

9. Handwritten and typed drafts, notes and copies of inscriptions relating to Tiy, Ay, Tutankhamun, Amenhotep III, and their relationship to one another. Includes typed drafts titled ‘The problem of Ay and his Queen Tyi’.

10. Letter from Norman de Garis Davies to Newberry on tomb TT192 belonging to Kheruef, the Steward of Queen Tiy.

11. Letter from Henry Hall to Newberry on a stela depicting Seker and Tutu (British Museum, EA 211), 31st January 1923, with a rubbing of an inscription on a granite fragment (identified during previous archival processing as a fragment of the sarcophagus in the tomb of Ay (Cairo Museum, Temp. No. 3.8.39.1) (TopBib i.551). The letter has been labelled as ‘King Ay’ by Newberry.

12. Notes relating to Ay, including reference cards with copies of inscriptions and notes on the tomb.

13. Notes and reference cards relating to Tyi, Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, Amenhotep IV and Nefertiti.

Folder numbered '3' and titled 'Hippopotamus, Horse and Chariot, Lion, Monkey, Bats, Cheetah, Hyena, Bear, Jerboa, Porcupine, Deer, Ostrich' containing five handbound notebooks titled 'Hippopotamus', 'Horse and Chariot', 'Lion', 'Monkey, Bats, Cheetah, Hyaena, Bear, Jerboa, Porcupine, Deer' and 'Ostrich'.

Notebook titled 'Hippopotamus' contains typed notes and a draft on the hippopotamus.

Notebook titled 'Horse and Chariot' contains notes on the horse and the chariot, including their introduction to Egypt, early references to them, representations in art, as well as notes on mules and charioteers. Also includes:

• Cutting of an image of a side of a painted box from the tomb of Tutankhamen showing Tutankhamen in a chariot (Cairo Museum, JE 61467)

• Cuttings of images of the interior and exterior of a chariot of Tuthmosis IV (Cairo Museum, JE 46097)

Notebook titled 'Lion' contains notes on lions including hunting lions, references to and representations of lions, their distribution and behavior. Also includes cutting of an image of a side of a painted box from the tomb of Tutankhamen showing Tutankhamen shooting lions from his chariot (Cairo Museum, JE 61467).

Notebook titled 'Monkey, Bats, Cheetah, Hyaena, Bear, Jerboa, Porcupine, Deer' includes:

• Notes on different species of baboon and monkey, including cutting with drawings of two baboon-shaped objects

• Notes on the bat

• Notes on the cheetah, including a photograph of Newberry with a cheetah

• Notes on the jerboa

• Notes on references to the hyena

• Notes on references to the bear

• Notes on references to the porcupine, including cutting of a porcupine inscription (Egyptian Museum of Berlin, 1132)

• Draft on the fallow deer, including tracing and drawings

Notebook titled 'Ostrich' includes notes on the ostrich, including their distribution and on ostrich feathers worn in the hair. Also includes:

• Cuttings from The Illustrated London News, 22 January 1927, a fan made out of ostrich feathers and a fan handle found in the tomb of Tutankhamun (TopBib i2.583 [242])

Photographs and postcards of statues from museums, mostly Cairo Museum. The photographs have been identified during previous archival processing with Topographical Bibliography references written on the back.

Includes:

• Green schist statue of Mentuhotep VI (TopBib 800-440-100) (British Museum, EA 65429)
• Head of Amun with features of Tutankhamun (TopBib 802-049-080) (Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art, E.5698)
• Psammethek in front of Hathor Cow [postcard] (TopBib iii.671) (Cairo Museum, 784)
• Senenmut with Princess Neferure (TopBib ii.134) (Cairo Museum, 42114)
• Nufer [postcard] (TopBib iii.723) (Cairo Museum, CG 145)
• Head of Tii (also known as the head of Mut) [postcard] (TopBib ii.84)
• Ramesses IV with captive [postcard]
• Head, possibly Amenophis I (TopBib ii.72) (Cairo Museum, JE 52364)
• Statues previously in the Amherst Collection
• Block Statue of Vizier User (TopBib ii.127) (Louvre Museum, A.127)
• Statuette of Reshef (TopBib 802-044-250) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 89.2.215)
• Bust of Iker (TopBib i.651) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 26.7.1393)
• Statue of a boar (British Museum, 51094)
• Painted statues of Prince Rahotpu and his wife Princess Nofrit (TopBib iv.91) (Cairo Museum, 3 and 4)
• Sesostris I (TopBib iv.84) (Cairo Museum, CG 44951)
• Wehebre (TopBib iv.47) (Cairo Museum, CG 672)
• Anubis [postcard] (TopBib iv.26A) (Cairo Museum, CG 38517)
• Ptah [postcard] (TopBib iii.833) (Cairo Museum, CG 38429)
• Statue called The Cheikh-el-Beled or head man of the Village [postcard] (TopBib iii.459) (Cairo Museum, CG 34)
• Osiris and Isis (TopBib iii.670) (Cairo Museum, CG 38884 and 38358)
• Statuettes from tomb of Hesi (TopBib iii.286) (Cairo Museum, JE 72225-6)
• Triple statue of Mersuankh (TopBib iii.270) (Cairo Museum, JE 66618)
• Statue of a female brewer (TopBib iii.270) (Cairo Museum, JE 66624)
• Face of a male statue (TopBib iii.268) (Cairo Museum, JE 66625)
• Triple statue of a man, standing, from the tomb of Mersuankh (TopBib iii.268) (Cairo Museum, JE 66616)
• Triple statue of Rawer (TopBib iii.266) (Cairo Museum, JE 66615)
• Khafre [postcard] (TopBib iii.22) (Cairo Museum, CG 14)
• Head of Taharqa (TopBib ii.533) (Cairo Museum, CG 560)
• Colossus of Merneptah [postcard] (TopBib ii.448) (Cairo Museum, CG 607)
• Tuthmosis III [postcard] (TopBib ii.137) (Cairo Museum, CG 42053)
• Incomplete group statue of Ramesses III crowned by Horus (TopBib ii.526) (CG 629 and 1100)
• Tueris as hippopotamus [postcard] (TopBib ii.285-286) (Cairo Museum, CG 39145)
• Double statue of Sennufer and wife Sentnay with daughter Mutnefert (TopBib ii.283) (Cairo Museum CG 42126
• Amenophis II [postcard] (TopBib ii.282) (Cairo Museum, CG 39394)
• Senenmut (TopBib ii.262) (Cairo Museum, CG 579)
• Dhout [postcard] (TopBib ii.202) (Cairo Museum, CG 42123)
• Pedeamun-nebnesuttaui (TopBib ii.155) (Cairo Museum, JE 36908)
• Pedamenopet (TopBib ii.154) (Cairo Museum, JE 37341)
• Harkhebi (TopBib ii.150) (Cairo Museum, CG 42231)
• Nekhtefmut (TopBib ii.148) (Cairo Museum, CG 42207)
• Neferpert [postcard] (TopBib ii.144-5) (Cairo Museum, CG 42121)
• Queen Esi (TopBib ii.144) (Cairo Museum, CG 42072)
• Bronze schilbe fish from the top of a standard (British Museum, EA37449)
• Syria (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.45.3.121)

Diary titled by Newberry 'The Theban Necropolis - Excavations 1898-1899 - Account of Men's wages for the Marquis of Northampton'.

Front section contains lists of men, the days worked and their wages.

On the front page of the diary Newberry has written 'Small service is true service whilst it lasts - of friends however humble scorn not one - The daisy by the shadow that it casts - Protects the lingering dew drop from the sun' and below 'If by such rose we see - A thorn there grows - Strive that no thorn shall be - Without its rose'.

Diary contains a brief daily log of activities and details of payments made, 1 January 1899 to 9 April 1899.

This item has been digitised and transcribed.

Folder titled 'Deforestation : Dessication' containing research notes on deforestation, dessication and climate changes in Egypt.

Includes

• Notes on the Libyan Desert or Sahara including on deforestation

• Notes in preparation for a lecture titled 'Taming the land and interpretation of nature'

• Notes on articles by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

• Notes on deforestation

• Notes on the former fertility of Egypt

• Newspaper cutting on soil erosion in Africa by Elspeth Huxley from The Times, 10 June 1937

• Notes on the geology of Egypt

• Typed lecture notes on deforestation, flora and fauna in Egypt

• Notes on desiccation or drying up of lakes and rivers

• Typed draft titled 'Deforestation of Mediterranean Lands'

• Notes on deserts

Folder titled 'Predynastic Kings names Palermo and Cairo fragments', containing material relating to Predynastic Egypt.

Includes:

• Drafts on the history of Predynastic Egypt

• Notes on 'paleolithic implants' in Egypt

• Typed notes on the 'Predynastic Population'

• Handwritten notes on flints

• One page of a handwritten draft and notes on the Chalcolithic Period

• Notes on Predynastic pottery

• Tracings of Predynastic pottery depicting boats

• One page of a handwritten draft titled 'Some Cults of Prehistoric Egypt'

• Three pages of a handwritten draft on cult insignia

• Draft letter to Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards on research activity, 30 December 1947