Correspondence from John Jacoby relating to photographing samplers belonging to Newberry and research on Persian and Indian Needlework.

Correspondence from M. R. James (Provost of Eton) relating to selling a blue faience chalice and cataloguing the Myer collection of Egyptian antiquities.

Note:
MSS 26/42 is also numbered A.179

Correspondence from William Johnston including relating to travel plans.

Letter from Sir Arthur Keith relating to travel in Egypt.

Correspondence from Larry P. Kirwan including relating to his application and interview for a post at the Victoria & Albert Museum and draft reply from Newberry on the post and referring to T. Eric Peet's death.

Correspondence from Alfred E. Knight (Spink & Son Ltd., Art Gallery and Museum of Antiquities) relating to the sale of the MacGregor collection of Egyptian antiquities including terms of agreement with Newberry for his part in the sale.

Note:
MSS 27/116 is also numbered A.378

Letter from Charles Kuentz thanking Newberry for an article for publication and with reference to the impact of the first world war on relations between France and the UK [in French].

Letter from John La Farge asking for information for a painting for the Supreme Court Room of the State of Minnesota.

Note:
This letter is also numbered 62

Correspondence from Pierre Lacau including relating to sarcophagi and inscriptions [in French].

Correspondence from Sir Walter Rougeby Lamb (Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts, London) relating to an 'International Exhibition of the Art of Greater India' scheduled to be held in 1940 but cancelled due to the outbreak of war.

Correspondence from Stephen Herbert Langdon (1876-1937) including relating to ladanum, making arrangements to visit and a lecture by Newberry at the University of Oxford.

Note:
MSS 28/26 is also numbered 312
MSS 28/27 is also numbered 312a
MSS 28/28 is also numbered 382

Letter from Hans Osterfeldt Lange relating to the purchase of Middle Kingdom papyri.

Letter from William Lawrence inviting Newberry to see some embroideries.

Draft letter from Newberry to the Librarian of U.N.E.S.C.O. requesting books.

Correspondence from Victor Loret (1859-1946) including relating to excavation work at Drah Abou'l Neggah (1898) and research on the olive and moringa (1923).

Includes letter granting permission to the Marquis of Northampton assisted by Newberry and Wilhelm Spiegelberg to excavate at Drah Abou'l Neggah including sketch map of the permitted area, 2 November 1898, and draft letter to Loret relating to the contract and the geographical limits of the excavation.

Also includes telegram from Howard Carter to Newberry stating work had been stopped by the inspector, December 1898.

Note:
MSS 29/31 is also numbered 10
MSS 29/32 is also numbered 14
MSS 29/34 is also numbered 12
MSS 29/35 is also numbered A.183
There is also a telegram without a reference which is numbered 11

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 contains:

• First page of a report titled 'Report on the work of the Archaological Institute' written by Newberry on his involvement establishing an Archaeological Institute at the University of Liverpool

• Short history of the Archaeological Survey of Egypt (now known as the Egypt Exploration Society) by Newberry including his involvement, with hand written corrections and notes c.1931-2 (written for the 50th anniversary meeting of the EES (see AHG/42.222.33, Griffith Institute)), and list of Officers-in-Charge of the Survey, 1890-1932

• Letter lists 1887-1892 with a short summary of contents and numbered, these numbers correspond to numbers written on letters held in this collection

• Handwritten notes on the history of the Archaeological Survey of Egypt

• One page of typed notes on people who worked on the tomb of Tutankhamun

Two passports belonging to Percy Newberry, 1920-1927 and 1927-1937.

Agreement for the purchase by Newberry from Theodore M. Davis of the dahabiah or house boat known as the 'Beduin' for

Genealogical material including correspondence relating to genealogy, family trees, notes on members of the family.

Includes:

• Financial summary of the late Mrs Newberry's estate, 1871.
• Newspaper clippings relating to a court case between a Mr. Newberry (possibly Newberry's father Henry James Newberry) and his neighbour over the death of two of the neighbour's horses after they ate Yew tree cuttings from the latter's garden, March 1872.
• Order for the burial of the dead for Caroline Newberry, 4th January 1919.
• Sale catalogue for the property of the late Mrs Newberry, 1871.
• Letter of probate relating to the estate of Caroline Elizabeth Newberry (-1863), 16th October 1866.
• Reprint from The Parmaceutical Journal, 24th February 1906, on the history of Francis Newbery Sons Limited
  -Wyatt family trees
• Typed article on Ralph Newbery (1560-1605) and correspondence relating to a children's book called Dives pragmaticus - the Great Marchant Man - a book in English Metre written by Thomas Newbery in 1563 and reprinted with an introduction by Percy Newberry in 1910.
• Newspaper cutting on the funeral of Robert S. Johnston
• Photograph of a woman and child, c.1855-1880
• Bill for funeral arrangements for the late Amy Louisa Newberry, April 1859
• Financial details relating to the division of the late Mrs Newbery's estate
• Remembrance cards
• Copy of an indenture relating to the sale of property
• Sketches of family crests

Copies of lectures by Newberry including:

• Typed and handwritten lecture on foreign relations during the 18th Dynasty
• Typed lecture on the debt of western civilisations to ancient Egypt
• Handwritten lecture on the Delta as the origin of Egyptian culture delivered to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Brighton, 1948
• Typed lecture possibly given at the opening of the Institute of Archaeology established by the University of Cairo, c.1925
• Typed introductory lecture given in Cairo two years after the Institute of Archaeology was established by the University of Cairo on history and archaeology, c.1930
• Typed lecture on the history of ancient Egypt and ancient Egyptian culture

Folder has been labelled 'German Publication (1924) of photographs from Tutankhamuns Tomb. (found amongst the material of the late Percy E. Newberry)'.

Folder contains a German publication titled Tutanchamon - Sonderheft Der Woche or in English Tutankhamun - Special Weekly Issue (OEB 151539) on the tomb of Tutankhamun. The pages of the publication are not in order within the folder. There are also two newspaper or magazine cuttings of an image of a buckle in the form of a leopard's head from a Sem Priest's robe, copyright 1923.

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