Correspondence from Thomas Holden relating to flora and gardening including enquiry from Lord Rennell relating to the discovery of old seeds.

Note:
MSS 24/45 is also numbered A.167
MSS 24/46 is also numbered A.167b

There are two letters without reference numbers, one of which is numbered A.167a

Correspondence from Edward Morrell Holmes (1843-1930) including relating to oil, seeds,

Egyptian gardens, gardening, depiction of plants in Punt, labdanum and perfumery.

Also includes letter to the secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society requesting books from the library for Newberry.

Note:
MSS 24/48 is also numbered A.301
MSS 24/49 is also numbered 23

Correspondence from Dorothy Agnes Hood (daughter of Grace Elinor Hood and Sinclair Franklin Hood) relating to selling a gold necklace of bees.

Letter from A. S. Hooker (Norwegian Consulate, Cairo) relating to a bronze statuette seen in Jerusalem.

Note:
This letter is also numbered 229

Letter of thanks from Cecil H. Hooper (Librarian, South-Eastern Agricultural College, University of London) and referring to fruit growing.

Correspondence from Sonia E. Howe on her pleasure at meeting Newberry and travel in Morocco.

Letter from William Fraser Hume (Geological Survey of Egypt) relating to flora and fauna in the Egyptian mountains.

Correspondence from Bruce Stirling Ingram (Editor, The Illustrated London News) relating to photographs and illustrations for publication and lectures by Newberry. Includes references to the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun and Howard Carter's negotiations with the Egyptian authorities.

Correspondence from Erik Iversen and draft replies from Newberry relating to research, publications and arranging to meet. Includes draft reply from Newberry on a monument at Copenhagen of the Vizier Washptah (5129) and the double axe cult. Also includes draft letter relating to the establishment of an international association of Egyptologists.

Correspondence from Mary C. Jonas (Secretary, Egypt Exploration Society) relating to the work of the Egypt Exploration Society (EES).

Includes correspondence relating to: donations to the EES and fundraising including donations from Mrs Hubbard and distribution of the money; work at El Amarna including copy of a letter from Francis Giesler Newton to Henry Reginald Holland Hall on work at El Amarna and Francis Llewellyn Griffith's illness (Dec 1923), and correspondence following the death of Newton and relating to continuation of his work by Thomas Whittlemore; management on the EES including reports of meetings, discussion of committee members and appointment of officers; Jonas' resignation as Secretary.

Also includes letter to Warren Dawson from T. Eric Peet relating to work for the EES and copy of an agreement for work with Peet, 12 Nov 1915.

Note:
MSS 26/80 is also numbered A.182

Letter from Cyril Jones notifying Newberry of the death of Harold Jones.

Correspondence from Harold Jones including relating to his health and work in Egypt for John Garstang and Theodore Davis. Also includes reference to Howard Carter and correspondence relating to nome signs.

Note:
MSS 27/2 is also numbered A.251
MSS 27/3 is also numbered A.277
MSS 27/4 is also numbered A.372
MSS 27/5 is also numbered A.92
MSS 27/7 is also numbered A.42
MSS 27/10 is also numbered A.40
MSS 27/13 is also numbered A.84
MSS 27/14 is also numbered A.43
MSS 27/17 is also numbered A.349

Correspondence from W.G. Jones (Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Liverpool) including on Newberry's resignation from the Brunner Chair of Egyptology.

Correspondence from Pierre Jouguet relating to an invitation from Newberry to dinner.

Note:
MSS 27/26 is also numbered A.180

Letter of thanks from Henry Pottinger Keatinge (1860-1928).

Note:
This letter is also numbered 36

Correspondence from R. Talbot Kelly (1861-1934) including relating to travel in Egypt and a framed picture being sent to Newberry.

Note:
MSS 27/66 is also numbered 350
MSS 27/67 is also numbered 99

Correspondence from Albert Frank Kendrick (Department of Textiles, Victoria & Albert Museum, London) relating to the Victoria & Albert Museum including items in the collection, exhibitions, purchase and sale of items, items belonging to Newberry including a Persian brocade, research enquiries from Newberry including on gloves, reference to textiles from the tomb of Tutankhamun, and the effects of the second world war. Also includes requests for information including about the pomegranate in Egyptian art and draft replies from Newberry, as well as a plain linen shirt from an unknown site in Egypt with enclosed sketch.

Note:
MSS 27/68 is also numbered 317
MSS 27/74 is also numbered A.19

Letter of thanks from Henry W. Kent (Metropolitan Museum, New York).

Letter from Sir Frederic George Kenyon requesting a reference for Arthur Callender.

Correspondence from Neville Langton relating to his research on cats and cylinder seals. Includes notes on cylinders with cat figures and the bast sign.

Correspondence from Lady Iris Lawrence including relating to Newberry's photograph of climbing goats, Newberry putting his name down for the Red Cross Interpretation List for Arabic and a draft reply from Newberry on gardening, plant cuttings an article by Thomas Henry Huxley on Gentians and referring to meeting him in 1887.

Correspondence from Thorold D. Lee (Arthur H. Lee & Sons Ltd., Tapestry Works) including relating to photographs for a paper by Lee on tapestries, and examination of a girdle.

Correspondence from Edward Thurlow Leeds (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) including corrections to Newberry's list of nome signs (1916), relating to relocating material during the war including two predynastic bowls belonging to Newberry, Newberry sending his filing cabinets to the Griffith Institute (1939), damage during World War Two, donation of items by Newberry including Egyptian textiles (including draft reply from Newberry), museum acquisitions and copyright ownership of the Howard Carter material.

Also includes: copy of a letter from Newberry to Leeds on copyright ownership of the Howard Carter material; draft letter from Newberry on work during World War Two and gifting books to the Griffith Institute; draft letter from Newberry on donating Persian tiles to the Ashmolean Museum.

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

• i. Typescript letter from Dr Alexander Scott, December 1930, to Howard Carter, on animal tissue with gesso used under gold on the burial shrines. Also, see Chemistry notes (TAA i.3.9).
• ii. Photograph of a microscope slide, sample with animal hair follicles, enclosed with Scott's letter.
• iii. Alfred Lucas's manuscript notes on the analysis of gesso, which mentions a layer of ‘course woven fabric’ found under gesso.
• iv. Howard Carter's manuscript notes on components of gypsum, whiting and chalk.

Third shrine (238). Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• i. Carter's report on the shrine, its construction, measurements, copies of ‘guide’ marks, note on seal impressions, drawing of roof and cornice showing tongues for attachment. Not published by Carter.
• ii. Carter's drawing of shrine detail, noting construction.
• iii. Harry Burton's photographs of the shrine. Taken in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Fourth (innermost) shrine (239). Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• i. Carter's annotated typewritten report, all pages cancelled (crossed through).
• ii. Four Carter drawings with details of the shrine's construction.
• iii. Harry Burton's photographs of the shrine, taken in Cairo, Egyptian Museum.
• iv. Carter's transcriptions of the texts from the shrine.

Tutankhamun excavation: Alfred Lucas documentation on wood from the tomb.

• Correspondence and related material on wood, including:
  • 16 letters exchanged between Alfred Lucas and Laurence Chalk discussing wood specimens from the tomb of Tutankhamun;
• 3 offprints, Lucas articles:
  • Lucas, A. 1932. The Occurrence of Natron in Ancient Egypt. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 18 (1/2), 62-66 (OEB 144143);
  • Lucas, A. 1936. The Wood of the Third Dynasty Ply-wood Coffin from Saqqara. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 36, 1-4 (OEB 144160);
  • Lucas, A. 1924. Note on the Temperature and Humidity of Several Tombs in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 24, 12-14 (OEB 144136).

Restricted access file.

Correspondence between Howard Carter, A. H. Gardiner, P. Lacau, and P. Engelbach, concerning a whm amulet from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

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.