General notes on the four sepulchral shrines. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Folder 1: Carter's manuscript report.
• Folder 2: Carter's typescript notes, many cancelled (crossed through).
• Base measurements of shrines after their re-erection in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
• Carter's copies of Egyptian words for shrines and their meanings, taken from Gardiner's Grammar.

Second shrine (237). Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• i. Carter's report on the shrine with measurements, wood type, construction, sealings, "guide" marks, and a note on the changes to the cartouches, possibly from those of Smenkhkare.
• ii. Carter's drawing of shrine detail, noting its construction.
• iii. Harry Burton's photographs of the shrine. Taken in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

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

• i. Carter's manuscript notes on scarves from Tutankhamun's tomb. Carter suggests they are the forerunners of the Eucharistic vestment called the maniple.
• ii. Copy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 1932, with an article by Herbert E. Winlock on sem-priests' costumes.

Tutankhamun excavation: Alfred Lucas conservation notes, 1926-1927.

• Alfred Lucas's manuscript notes.
• ‘Materials Employed’ during the fifth season 1926-1927.
• Two pages.

Table of contents on page 1.
Transcriptions of hieratic papyri:
-Budapest, Szépmvészeti Múzeum, 51.1961 (Magical)
-Paris, Musée du Louvre, N. 3171
-Paris, Musée Guimet, 16959
-St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, 1117
-St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, 1118
-Turin Museo Egizio, Cat. 1983 verso
-Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Egizio, 19a (Magical)
-Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum (von Bergmann, Hier. ... Texte pl. 5 recto)
-Golenischeff / Golenishchev collection, Literary Letter
Transcriptions of writing tablets:
-London, British Museum, EA 16672 (tablet of Eskhons)
-Paris, Musée du Louvre, E. 6858 (tablet of Eskhons)

1 letter from Korostovtsev, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Korostovtsev.
Book exchange, publications by Golenischeff / Golenishchev for publications by Gardiner. Černý referred to a plan to visit the USSR, which eventually did not happen.

Research material on tomb and rock inscriptions including at Aswan and Sehel

Includes:
-Cartouches of Neferhotep I and Sesostris III from rock texts at Sehel Island (TopBib v.250), text of Haankhef from rock text at Konosso (TopBib v.254), and text of Neferhotep I and family from rock text at Aswan (TopBib v.246)
-Copy of text from the 'famine stela' (Brooklyn Museum, 9.4.004) (TopBib v.252(81))
-Copy of names and titles from tombs at Aswan including Mekhu and Sabni (TopBib v.231(1-2)), Heqaib (TopBib v.232), Sirenput II (TopBib v.233), Aku (TopBib v.234), Khui (TopBib v.235), Khunes (TopBib v.235), Khenuseu (TopBib v.235), Herkhuf (TopBib v.237), Pepynakht (TopBib v.237), Senmosi (TopBib v.237), Sirenput I (TopBib v.238), Sebkhotp (TopBib v.239), Khuenkhnum (TopBib v.240), Thethi (TopBib v.240), Sen (TopBib v.240), Iba (TopBib v.240) and extract from a letter from Professor Elmar Edel to whom these notes had been sent for consultation in connection with his work (in German)
-Copy of inscriptions including from Aswan, Bijeh, and Sehel copied from Morgan, J. de, Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'égypte antique. Première série, Haute égypte, (1894) (OEB 136449)

Photostats and photographs of material held at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

Photographs and photostats from the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

Photographs of material held at the Musée du Louvre (Louvre Museum).

Photographs and photostats of material from various collections.

Note and Copies of literary manuscripts held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Copies of literary manuscripts from Queen's College Oxford.

Copies of and notes on literary material held at the British Library.

Copies, photograph and notes on material held in Paris.

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

Facsimiles of hieratic signs from Gardiner ostraca.

1 letter. P. L. O. Guy is the sender.

1 letter. Vasilij Vasilievich Struve is the sender.

Copies of Fayyumic Texts. Published and unpublished including Morgan XXIV.