• Journal letters.
• November 6, 1890, to June 15, 1891.
• Handwritten.
• Petrie at Maidum for the whole season excavating and recording the tombs, as well as surveying the pyramid. Petrie assisted by G. W. Fraser and F. J. Bliss. In April 1891, Petrie travels to Greece to visit Ernest Gardner, Director of the British School at Athens, where Petrie is able to confirm that the “Aegean” finds from Gurob were manufactured in Mycenae then exported to Egypt.
• Sites: Maidum (Meydum; Medum).
• Includes several small watercolours of objects.

Certificate:

1. Marriage certificate for George Collins and Jane Lane (20 October 1879) [photocopy of a certified copy requested by Brenda Moon in 1999]

My Early Years by Sir Alan Gardiner.

[Ballaghaue, Andreas Isle of Man, 1986. Typed, photocopied and bound by John Gardiner].

Exactly the same as the copy in the Sackler Library, 318 Gar, except for the missing preface and end page. Includes Henry John Gardiner... a very few reminiscences by his younger son, and The Tutankhamun Tomb, by Margaret Gardiner.

Fourth copy of My Early Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1968).

Copy of My Working Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1962).

40 letters from Aldred, 7 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Aldred.

• consultations on ostraca in the Hunterian museum
• Rhind dockets, objects from the Edinburgh museum collection and search for ostraca in other Scottish collections
• Akhenaten and Tutankhamun's chariots
• personal matters
• notes on other Egyptological institutions

Howard Carter's additional notes to his notebook with an inventory of objects from Tutankhamun's tomb with recording and conservation schedule, 1922-1930

• Howard Carter's manuscript notes on objects or subjects
• Supplements Carter's notebook, see TAA i.2.13
• Includes notes on:
  • 2 pages with notes on the magical figures from niches in the wall of sarcophagus chamber, Carter 257-260
  • 2 pages with notes relating to the sarcophagus, Carter 240, with copies of texts extracted from Lacau, Pierre 1904-1906. Sarcophages antérieurs au Nouvel Empire (OEB 142822)
  • 2 pages with notes on gilded wood emblems, Carter object 196, and the clay brick stands for these emblems, Carter 198a
  • 1 page with notes on ritual emblems in the burial chamber and the disturbance of these objects by tomb robbers
  • 1 page with notes on beads and part of necklace dropped by tomb robbers, Carter 172
  • 1 page with general notes on Anubis animal, i.e. jackal
  • 1 page with a list and photograph? number: gloves, general view of the tomb, carved ivory box, and head of the king
  • 1 page with a list of Tutankhamun object numbers

Boats. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• i. Carter's manuscript notes on boats, parts of boats, and the "Eastern Mediterranean" types of boat.
• ii. Carter's manuscript extracts from Erman, Adolf, Egyptian Religion, concerning boats.
• iii. Carter's manuscript notes on Egyptian names for various types of boats.
• G. S. Laird Clowes 17-page annotated typescript titled 'Boat-Models found in the Tomb of Tutankhamen.'

Tutankhamun documentation: Nina de Garis Davies' notes on boxes (21) and (540)+(551).

• Nina de Garis Davies's manuscript notes on the decoration of two boxes:
  • Carter object (21), the "Painted Box" with battle and hunting scenes.
  • Carter objects (540)+(551), with scenes of Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun in a garden on the lid.
• Includes two small watercolour sketches and a line drawing, all created by Davies.
• This material was created in January and February 1951 when Davies visited the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
• Davies's paintings of box (21) were subsequently published. See below for details.

Statuettes of deities, the king, and standards. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Howard Carter's notes, seven items, all manuscript except for one typescript, also one photograph
  • i. Photograph of royal tomb wall scene with figures similar to those found in the tomb.
  • ii. Note on the 'Ennead'.
  • iii. List of the statuettes of deities from the tomb.
  • iv. List of the statuettes of the King which portray him as Horus.
  • v. List of (?) standards.

Gold. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

1. Carter's manuscript, eight pages, 'Notes upon the remarkable rose-coloured gold employed in jewellery and other ornaments of the Theban Egyptian New Empire' etc., including:
   • (i) Copy of Alfred Lucas' account in Carter, Howard, The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen ii (1927), pp. 172 ff;
   • (ii) Copy of Dr Alexander Scott's notes on rose gold;
   • (iii) Copy of the jeweller's J. R. Ogden typewritten analysis of one sequin;
   • (iv) Carter's summing up of the evidence.
2. Letters addressed to Howard Carter from:
   • (i) Dr Alexander Scott, May (typewritten, with manuscript draft of Carter's reply), June (manuscript), and August 1933 (manuscript), regarding gold in the tomb;
   • (ii) The jewellers J. R. Ogden concerning gold, with their analysis, typewritten;
   • (iii) W. F. Hume, December 1930, typewritten, on his publication about gold in ancient Egypt;
   • (iv) Copy of letter from Howard Carter to W. F. Hume, May 1933, on rose gold;
   • (v) Alfred Lucas to Howard Carter, November 1933, manuscript, on rose gold.
   • (vi) Carter's draft/copy manuscript letter addressed to A. Lucas, 15 May 1933.
3. Newspaper cutting from Illustrated London News, April 1934, with articles by E. T. Lewis and W. T. Blackband on 'Rediscovery of the lost Etruscan art of granulation'.
   The following items were also filed by Carter in this group:
   • Printed calling card: Mr Alfred Dobrée, Le Fainel, St Martins, Guernsey. Savile Club.
   • Manuscript note with contact details for Dr [Cecil H.] Desch. F.R.S. National Physical Laboratory, Teddington', on Savile Club headed notepaper.

Objects found on Tutankhamun's body. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• i. Carter's notes for the disposition of objects on Tutankhamun's body, 1 typescript page the rest are manuscript pages
• ii. Carter's drawings of a male figure with a grid, probably the original drawings and template used for the sixteen 'autopsy drawings' showing the position of jewellery on Tutankhamun's body (see TAA i.4.1-16).
• iii. Drawing of Tutankhamun's body with grid, probably the basis for the drawings described above, in ii.
• iv. Photostats and a precis of a lecture given by Dr Douglas Derry, Professor of Anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, and Mr Rex Engelbach, Keeper of the Cairo Museum, on "Akhenaton & Tutankhamon, manuscript.
• v. Photostats of a manuscript "Anatomical Report on the Mummy of King Tut ankh Amon. By Dr D. E. Derry and Dr Saleh Bey Hamdi."

First (outermost) shrine (207). Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• i. Carter's annotated typewritten report.
• ii. Carter's drawing of shrine detail, noting construction.
• iii. Harry Burton's photographs of the shrine. Taken in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Tutankhamun Excavation. Howard Carter's notes on various subjects.

• i. General note on tomb robbery.
• ii. Jewellery. References to pectoral (261P(2)), docket from box (267), etc.
• iii. Three pages of manuscript notes on 'The last and final season's work in the Tomb of Tutankhamun', including references to the sarcophagus, shrines, etc.
• iv. A note on the contents of rooms and disturbance by ancient robbers.
• v. Two handwritten notes concerning tomb plan development in the New Kingdom.

Letters sent to Howard Carter at the time of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. These letters were almost immediately passed on by Carter to A. C. Mace to deal with.

• Photographs showing the transport of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Laboratory tomb (KV 15), Valley of the Kings.
• Taken by anonymous photographers.
• None of the photographs in this group were taken by Harry Burton.

• Photographs of six cubit rods from the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• All rods are made of wood.
• Carter object numbers:
  • (50dd'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61315.
  • (50dd''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61316.
  • (50ee'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61317.
  • (50ee''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61318.
  • (50ff'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61319.
  • (50ff''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61320.

• Letters and documents relating to Howard Carter's dispute with the Egyptian Government after the European team members' wives were barred from entering the tomb to view the contents of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus after the lid had been lifted (12 February 1924).
• The dispute on the following day, 13 February 1924, eventually resulted in Howard Carter and the rest of the team being locked out of the tomb until 13 January 1925.
• Includes correspondence between Sir Alan Gardiner and the Foreign Office, Egyptologists and others in 1924.
• Referred to as the "Carter Affair" or "Tutankhamun Affair".

Documentation and correspondence regarding the planned Tutankhamun publication project by the Griffith Institute.

• 35mm black and white transparencies, made from the drawings on the original set of object cards (TAA i.1.1-620).
• Photographs made from these transparencies were affixed to the duplicate set of object cards to complete the information, see TAA iii.1.1-620.

• Annotated photocopies made from a folder marked 'Friends and Colleagues' from among the papers of J. H. Breasted, in Chicago, Oriental Institute.
• Includes photographs showing:
  • 'Carter appears not young'
  • Transportation of objects from Tutankhamun's tomb to the railway.
  • 'Probably John Hartmen (Austrian photographer) working in Cairo Museum'.
  • J. H. Breasted and A. Gardiner working in the Cairo Museum, etc.

Newspaper and magazine cuttings, mainly from the contemporary press, including The New York Times and The Illustrated London News, related to the finding and excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

A collection of printed media (UK local newspapers) relating to the 1972 Tutankhamun exhibition held at the British Museum, London.

A collection of postal stamps featuring objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun, mostly commemorating the 50th anniversary of the tomb's discovery in 1972.
Includes six first-day covers, one issued in Egypt and five issued by UK institutions.