Correspondence from Kurt Sethe including relating to corrections to the inscriptions of the tomb of Rekhmara [1 letter in German]. Also includes notice of Sethe's death in 1934.
Also includes draft letter from Newberry to Sethe regarding some philological questions and the Hebrew Yah (1909)
10 letters from Barbara Sewell, Assistant Secretary, Griffith Institute. Departmental matters at the Griffith Institute, which Sewell reported to Černý during his absences, contents of correspondence that arrived when Černý was outside Oxford; personal matters.
Correspondence from Mary Stout Shaw including relating to travel, research on shabtis and persea wood, and requesting an article for inclusion in a book on Egyptian gardens with draft reply from Newberry.
Shawabti (ushabti) figures. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
i. Carter's typewritten general notes on shawabtis.
ii. Carter's manuscript report with transcriptions, and notes, for shawabtis from Tutankhamun's tomb, including lists with shawabtis grouped by type, their object excavation number, material, and the chamber they were found.
Correspondence. Transcriptions with notes of IFAO ostraca. Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie: notes on texts consulted, February 2002; updates and corrections for catalogue entries. Annotated photocopied articles. ‘Recherchen zum koptischen Schrifttum in Prager Museen und Sammlungen (Stand August 1998)’, by Wolf B. Oerter Page titled ‘New šine nsa ostraca - where are they now?’, from ‘Reconstructing the archives of the monastery of Apollo at Bawit’. Transcription and translation of Cybele Coptic ostraca 72, 73, and 74. Three colour photographs. Typescript of an article on ‘Another Coptic “enquiry” about a delivery of wheat’, by W. J. Tait, for C. Eyre et. al. (eds.), The Unbroken Reed (Fs. Shore).
5 letters from Shore to Černý. 1 letter from Shore to Marie Černý, 1 draft of a letter from Marie Černý to Shore. Studies in Coptic etymologies, and Demotic studies; finds from Deir el-Medîna. Shore exchange with Marie Černý - off-prints of J. Černý obituaries.
8 letters from Simpson, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Simpson. 2 letters exchanged between Černý and C. Cann (Queen's College) regarding Simpson's proposed stay in Oxford. Simpson negotiating a PhD position at Oxford, although Simpson eventually decided to do his PhD in the United States; Simpson's research into Egyptian accounts and accounting, as well as a reference to the Reisner papyri; Simpson published extensively on the latter, see Simpson, W. K., Papyrus Reisner I: The Records of a Building Project in the Reign of Sesostris I (1963) (OEB 10466), and Simpson, W. K., Papyrus Reisner II: Accounts of the dockyard workshop at This in the reign of Sesostris I (1965) (OEB 11529).
List of the demotic papers, etc. covered by Sir Herbert Thompson’s bequest to Professor S. R. K. Glanville. Notes. Correspondence. Transcriptions. Photocopied articles. Short biography and list of material held in the Cambridge University Library collections. Petrie ostraca notes. Correspondence relating to Turin demotic rotuli. Allberry’s Kephalaia index, Oriental Studies Library, Cambridge. Listing of Cambridge Oriental Faculty Library’s Egyptological holdings, with items belonging to the Sir Herbert Thompson archive underlined in pencil.
Photocopied card catalogue of paper codices in Coptic and Arabic and printed books relating to Coptic studies at Christ’s College Library, donated by Sir Stephen Gaselee. Description of manuscript collection. Correspondence. Photographs and scans. Notes. Conservation report.
Correspondence from T.C. Skeat and draft reply from Newberry relating to papyri from the Amherst collection in the British Museum which belong to the Pierpont Morgan Library.
