Correspondence from Sir Alfred William Winslow Dale (1855-1921) (Vice Chancellor, Liverpool University) including on appointment to and resignation from Professorship at the University of Liverpool; and report of Selection Committee which includes details Newberry's career and that of John Garstang up to 1907.
Note: MSS 11/5 is also numbered 348 MSS 11/6 is also numbered A 240
Correspondence from Nina de Garis Davies to Newberry and Mrs Newberry including asking Newberry's advice on camping at Beni Hasan with Rosalind Moss; details of travel and travel plans; cataloguing Newberry's collection of textiles.
Note: MSS 11/22 is also numbered 18a MSS 11/23 is also numbered 18 MSS 11/25 is also numbered 257
Correspondence from Amelia Blanford Edwards (1831-1892) relating to the work of the Egypt Exploration Fund; production of Newberry's book Beni Hasan; the work of Fraser and Blackden; telegram on the death of Edwards. Also includes letter to Griffith on his proposal to delay Newberry's publication and on transliteration and Egyptian types.
Some letters have been dictated by Edwards and signed by Emily Paterson, Private Secretary.
Note: MSS 13/4 is also numbered 97 MSS 13/5 is also numbered 131 MSS 13/7 is also numbered 107 MSS 13/18 is also numbered 124 MSS 13/19 is also numbered 125 MSS 13/24 is also numbered 144 There is an additional letter between MSS 13/25 and MSS 13/26 which is numbered 140 MSS 13/27 is also numbered 60 MSS 13/28 is also numbered 36 MSS 13/29 is also numbered 59 MSS 13/31 is also numbered 2 and 54
The Percy Newberry Collection has been listed thanks to a cataloguing grant from the The National Archives in 2015. The collection comprises a wide range of material on topics including Predynastic Egypt, Theban tombs, Egyptian flora and fauna, early Egyptian travellers, ancient Egyptian religion and culture, as well as Newberry's genealogy. Formats include notebooks, research notes, photographs, tracings, rubbings and newspaper clippings.
The collection has been divided into 5 series: Biographical Material; Correspondence; Research Notebooks; Subject Files, and Research Material.
1) Photograph album of a family holiday to Abu Qir, erroneously titled ‘Abusir. Summer 1923’, also including other older photographs (1918 to 1923). 2) Photograph album of family portraits [non-Egyptological]. 3) Copy of the Arabic publication 'Arab Architecture in Egypt: The Principal Structural Characteristics of the Style Classified'; by Wilfrid Joseph Dilley (...); with plates prepared by F. Chatterton (...); translated by Mahmoud Ahmed (...); Cairo: National Printing Press, 1923; including 2 manuscript English translations of Arabic title page [non-Egyptological] [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/869282469]. 4) An additional folder with photographs, 2 postcards and a small group of family papers.
Correspondence from Sir Henry George Lyons (1864-1944) including relating to his research on technical tools and requesting publication references from Newberry. On several letters Newberry has made a note of the relevant publication.
Also includes correspondence relating to: excavation work in Egypt; Lyons' position at the Science Museum, London; giving a lecture on Tutankhamun; reference to Newberry's work Cyprus; publication of an atlas of ancient Egypt with Francis Llewelyn Griffith; donation made by Newberry towards the museum purchasing 'Napier's Bones'; the effect of earthquakes in Egypt.
Note: MSS 29/72 is also numbered 222 MSS 29/74 is also numbered 203 MSS 29/75 is also numbered A.188 MSS 29/76 is also numbered 17a MSS 29/77 is also numbered 17 MSS 49/16 is also numbered A 364 MSS 49/17 is also numbered A 366 MSS 49/18 is also numbered 24 MSS 49/19 is also numbered 4 MSS 49/20 is also numbered A 329 MSS 49/21 is also numbered A 316 MSS 49/22 is also numbered 12
Correspondence from Dorothy Mackay (Assistant Keeper, Ashmolean Museum) and first page of a reply from Newberry relating to textiles donated to the Ashmolean Museum.
Correspondence from Marie Louise Dora McClure including relating to the Egypt Exploration Fund, social events and accommodation for Egyptologists visiting for a congress.
Note: MSS 30/15 is also numbered A.247 MSS 30/17 is also numbered 17 MSS 30/18 is also numbered 22 MSS 30/19 is also numbered 16 MSS 30/20 is also numbered 30 MSS 30/21 is also numbered 30
Letter from R.D. Morse (Ginn and Company Ltd., Publishers) relating to the production of colour blocks made from Newberry's Queen Tiy miniature and referring to the death of James Henry Breasted.
Correspondence from Henri Edouard Naville including arranging to meet Newberry and discussion of the plunder of tombs in Egypt, Egyptologists (Friedrich Bissing, Ludwig Borchardt, Francis Ll. Griffith) and the 'School of Berlin'.