- NEWB2/411
- Bestanddeel
- 1935 - 1943
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from John Jacoby relating to photographing samplers belonging to Newberry and research on Persian and Indian Needlework.
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Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from John Jacoby relating to photographing samplers belonging to Newberry and research on Persian and Indian Needlework.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
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
Johnston, William - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from William Johnston including relating to travel plans.
Keith, (Sir) Arthur - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Letter from Sir Arthur Keith relating to travel in Egypt.
Kirwan, Larry P. - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
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.
Knight, Alfred E. - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
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
Kuentz, Charles - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
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].
La Farge, John - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
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
Lacau, Pierre - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from Pierre Lacau including relating to sarcophagi and inscriptions [in French].
Lamb, (Sir) Walter Rougeby - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
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.
Langdon, Stephen Herbert - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
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
Lange, Hans Osterfeldt - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Letter from Hans Osterfeldt Lange relating to the purchase of Middle Kingdom papyri.
Lawrence, William - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Letter from William Lawrence inviting Newberry to see some embroideries.
Librarian of U.N.E.S.C.O. - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Draft letter from Newberry to the Librarian of U.N.E.S.C.O. requesting books.
Loret, Victor - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
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
Lord Northampton's Excavation Diary
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
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.
Biographical material including history of the Egypt Exploration Society
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
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
Passports belonging to Percy Newberry
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Two passports belonging to Percy Newberry, 1920-1927 and 1927-1937.
Purchase agreement for house boat
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Agreement for the purchase by Newberry from Theodore M. Davis of the dahabiah or house boat known as the 'Beduin' for
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Genealogical material including correspondence relating to genealogy, family trees, notes on members of the family.
Includes:
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Copies of lectures by Newberry including:
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Album of newspaper cuttings relating to the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, excavation of the tomb and finds. The album includes a partial index. Roughly half of the album has been filled.
Tutanchamon - Sonderheft Der Woche
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
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.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
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
Group photograph with Egyptologists 01
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Note on the back names some of the people as Abu Bakr, Hermann Grapow, Percy Newberry, Georg Steindorff, Hermann Junker, Selim Hassan and Banub Habachi.