Letter from John George Adami (Vice Chancellor, Liverpool University, 1919-1926) thanking Newberry for a gift and discussing an article by James Breasted and the development of religion in Ancient Egypt.
Correspondence from Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie relating to a joint press publication scheme, Liverpool University Press Association, and negotiations with Sir Ernest Hodder Williams.
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
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.
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.
Folder including versions of a bibliography of Newberry.
Includes:
Reprint, proof copy, typed draft and photocopy of Magee, Diana, 'The Egyptological Bibliography of Percy Edward Newberry (1869-1949), in JEA 76, 1990 (OEB 32075).
Correspondence relating to the bibliography of Percy Newberry, 1989.
Numbered list 1-61 of Newberry's publications under the title 'Extracts from my Note-books'.
Photocopy of Newberry, Percy E., 'Notes on the History of Medicine in Ancient Egypt', in The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, 24 November 1888, p. 405-408.
Typed and handwritten lecture on foreign relations during the 18th Dynasty
Typed lecture on the debt of western civilisations to ancient Egypt
Handwritten lecture on the Delta as the origin of Egyptian culture delivered to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Brighton, 1948
Typed lecture possibly given at the opening of the Institute of Archaeology established by the University of Cairo, c.1925
Typed introductory lecture given in Cairo two years after the Institute of Archaeology was established by the University of Cairo on history and archaeology, c.1930
Typed lecture on the history of ancient Egypt and ancient Egyptian culture
Genealogical material including correspondence relating to genealogy, family trees, notes on members of the family.
Includes:
Financial summary of the late Mrs Newberry's estate, 1871.
Newspaper clippings relating to a court case between a Mr. Newberry (possibly Newberry's father Henry James Newberry) and his neighbour over the death of two of the neighbour's horses after they ate Yew tree cuttings from the latter's garden, March 1872.
Order for the burial of the dead for Caroline Newberry, 4th January 1919.
Sale catalogue for the property of the late Mrs Newberry, 1871.
Letter of probate relating to the estate of Caroline Elizabeth Newberry (-1863), 16th October 1866.
Reprint from The Parmaceutical Journal, 24th February 1906, on the history of Francis Newbery Sons Limited -Wyatt family trees
Typed article on Ralph Newbery (1560-1605) and correspondence relating to a children's book called Dives pragmaticus - the Great Marchant Man - a book in English Metre written by Thomas Newbery in 1563 and reprinted with an introduction by Percy Newberry in 1910.
Newspaper cutting on the funeral of Robert S. Johnston
Photograph of a woman and child, c.1855-1880
Bill for funeral arrangements for the late Amy Louisa Newberry, April 1859
Financial details relating to the division of the late Mrs Newbery's estate
Remembrance cards
Copy of an indenture relating to the sale of property
Notebook containing the catalogue of correspondence written by Warren Dawson. A note on the first page states that it was presented to the Griffith Institute by Mrs Newberry in 1950. The letters are organised alphabetically by the correspondent's surname, and appear to have been subsequently numbered, possibly on accession to the Archive. Arabic names have been sorted according to the first name.
Also includes a description of the biographical and diary notes in the collection (NEWB1/03-06), and calling cards which have been glued into the notebook.
Folder titled by John Harris 'PRESS CUTTINGS' with newspaper cuttings glued or fastened on to each page.
Newpaper cuttings are on a range of topics relating to ancient Egypt and Egyptology including congresses taking place, exhibitions such as the exhibition of Egyptian Art at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, book reviews, news relating to Percy Newberry, current research, obituaries, Sudan, Libya and the Libyan Desert.
Document relating to the sale of land at Binfield, Berkshire by Humfrey Newbery, Francis Broughton, Richard Radish and William Hawthorne to Alexander Hayes, 1629.
Photographs or calling cards of members of Newberry's extended family. Some are named on the back by Newberry with a note on genealogy. Includes photographs of: Newberry's mother Sarah Newberry, 1905; Newberry's Uncle F.J. Newberry; Newberry's Grandfather F.W. Newberry; Mrs Sarah Pine born Kenward (1790-?); Mrs Thomas Kenward; William Munk; James Newberry (1781-); Elizabeth Newberry (1791-); Thomas Kenward (1788-); Mrs James Newberry born Dixy. Also includes receipt for 12 calling cards, 1867.
Folder contains biographical notes which appear to have been written based on diary entries including: autobiographical notes; diary notes 1893-1930 including information on travel, work and names of people Newberry saw or was in touch with; lists of correspondence; cuttings of journal 1900-1902; sketches of scarabs, 1902; autobiographical notes on first meeting Reginald Stuart Poole and Flinders Petrie, 1941; bibliography.
Also includes numbered lists of correspondence received 1888-1935 with a brief summary of contents. Lists do not appear to be in any order, although some are sorted by year. These numbers correspond to numbers written on letters held in this collection.
-Album containing photographs of Old (and also some Middle) Kingdom antiquities and monuments. -Most of the photographs show the Giza pyramids, especially the Great Pyramid, as well as many private tombs. -This album includes the photograph showing Petrie standing outside the tomb he lived in the early 1880s when surveying the pyramids (Petrie MSS 5.5.23c [upper right]). -Other sites in this album include pyramids, tombs and other monuments at Saqqara, Meidum, Dahshur, Abusir, Hawara, Zawyet el-Amwat and Biahmu.
-Album titled 'Deshasheh 1897' containing photographs from Petrie's excavations at Deshasheh in 1897. -The introduction on the third page reads: 'Deshaheh is a village on the western edge of the Nile Valley, about twenty miles south of the entrance to the Fayum. At about two miles back in the desert is a low range of cliffs about 80 ft high. The southernmost end of these cliffs is an isolated hill which contains the inscribed tomb of Anta and many unnamed tomb pits; the cliffs for half a mile north of this are pierced with many more tombs, and contain another inscribed tomb, of Shedu. A serdab of a great mastaba, now destroyed, contained the series of statues of Nenkheftka. While in the hill above was the tomb and coffin inscribed of his son Nenkheftek. The excavations were made in Feb. and March 1897 for the Egypt Exploration Fund. / W.M. Flinders Petrie. / The whole cemetery is of about the Vth dynasty 3600 BC.' -The final 2 pages of photographs in the album (Petrie MSS 5.2.77-85) are of a statuette now in London, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, 14210.
Digital copies of the microfiche created from W. M. F. Petrie's excavation notebooks and tomb cards held in the archive of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University of Oxford. Two CDs with Mac and PC versions.
