Portfolio titled 'Tracings / Various / JB.' (ink) Pencil notes: 'Tracings / Complete / Vol 1' Pencil note: 'Egyptian Greek. etc' (almost certainly by Dr Moss) Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'L' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).
Portfolio titled 'Drawings / Egypt / JB.' (ink) Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'H' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss) Pencil note: 'Furniture (rubbed out), Abu Simbel. etc. / and Nubian Temple ?' (almost certainly by Dr Moss).
Portfolio titled 'Drawings Egypt / JB.' (ink) Pencil notes: '12 / Views Egypt / Complete' Pencil notes: 'List within / Mostly Assuan - / 1 Sakk[ara]' (rubbed out) (almost certainly by Dr Moss) Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'G' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).
Portfolio titled 'Drawings Egypt / JB.' (ink) Pencil note: '10 / Sketches E / Complete' Ink table of contents on piece of paper glued to cover, with pencil marks:
'1 Roman or Saracenic structure Assuan'
'x 2 Kursi Elephantine'
'3 Ibreem Derr Haga (pencil addition) Ibreem and hills beyond'
'4 x Derr Wadi Halfa and last rocks of Delta'
'x 5 Soleb'
'6 Nouri Berkel'
'7 Nouri'
'8 Nouri C L panoramic'
'9 View above 2 Cataract'
'10 Boat Dandour Girf Husseyn'
'11 Weaver. View above 2d Cataract'
Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'I' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss) Pencil note: Nubia (almost certainly by Dr Moss).
Correspondence including: asking Newberry to write a description of a tomb; describing the condition of the tomb; reference to photographs of the tomb. Also includes letter to Carter relating to him painting a coffin and referring to correspondence with Maspero. Also includes invitation sent to Davis to a meeting to observe whether any phenomena takes place on the anniversary of Pharaoh Akhnaton's death in the Valley of the Queens, 26 January 1909.
Note: MSS 12/4 is also numbered 16 MSS 12/5 is also numbered A.279 MSS 12/6 is also numbered A 280 MSS 12/8 is also numbered 292
Chariots. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Includes Carter's drawings with reconstructions of the chariots and harnesses, comparisons with chariots from other tombs and depictions of chariots from temple and tomb wall scenes.
An essay on Tutankhamun's chariots (TAA i.3.8.10-17), based on Howard Carter's notes, probably edited by Mrs Jane Waley in 1946-1947. Mrs Waley worked for the Griffith Institute and created the first catalogue for the Tutankhamun records.
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.
Canopic equipment. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Carter's eight annotated typewritten pages with a description of the equipment and two scale drawings:
Carter's typewritten report on the canopic equipment;
Carter's typescript notes on the miniature gold coffin from the north-east receptacle;
Carter's drawing, the canopic canopy (266), shrine (266a), and chest (266b), plan with orientation, position of the goddess statues, scenes on shrine noting goddesses and genii, etc.;
Carter's drawing, section showing the canopic canopy (266), shrine (266a), and chest (266b).
Gold. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Carter's manuscript, eight pages, 'Notes upon the remarkable rose-coloured gold employed in jewellery and other ornaments of the Theban Egyptian New Empire' etc., including:
(i) Copy of Alfred Lucas' account in Carter, Howard, The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen ii (1927), pp. 172 ff;
(ii) Copy of Dr Alexander Scott's notes on rose gold;
(iii) Copy of the jeweller's J. R. Ogden typewritten analysis of one sequin;
(iv) Carter's summing up of the evidence.
Letters addressed to Howard Carter from:
(i) Dr Alexander Scott, May (typewritten, with manuscript draft of Carter's reply), June (manuscript), and August 1933 (manuscript), regarding gold in the tomb;
(ii) The jewellers J. R. Ogden concerning gold, with their analysis, typewritten;
(iii) W. F. Hume, December 1930, typewritten, on his publication about gold in ancient Egypt;
(iv) Copy of letter from Howard Carter to W. F. Hume, May 1933, on rose gold;
(v) Alfred Lucas to Howard Carter, November 1933, manuscript, on rose gold.
(vi) Carter's draft/copy manuscript letter addressed to A. Lucas, 15 May 1933.
Newspaper cutting from Illustrated London News, April 1934, with articles by E. T. Lewis and W. T. Blackband on 'Rediscovery of the lost Etruscan art of granulation'. The following items were also filed by Carter in this group:
Printed calling card: Mr Alfred Dobrée, Le Fainel, St Martins, Guernsey. Savile Club.
Manuscript note with contact details for Dr [Cecil H.] Desch. F.R.S. National Physical Laboratory, Teddington', on Savile Club headed notepaper.
