Correspondence regarding thesis, proposed publication, and the acquisition of material.
Sample of the proposed publication.
B&w photographs and printouts of scans for the publication.

Colour and b&w photos of Coptic papyri in the Ismailia Museum, Egypt (some by Gabra, others, apparently, by Sarah Clackson).
Transcription and translation of very fragmentary papyrus No. 1143.
Correspondence; notes; transcriptions and translations of, and comments on, selected papyri in Ismailia.
Notes on Bawit papyri.
Notes on excavations at Bawit and annotated photocopied articles.
Annotated photocopied articles on Apollo of Bawit/Titkooh.
‘Secondary literature: monasteries’ - annotated photocopied articles.
MIFAO indices of Bawit papyri by Anne Boud’hors and R. G. Coquin, and a photocopied article on the conservation of the papyri.
Photocopied annotated article on the ‘Apollo of the Monastery of Isaac’ by H. Quecke, 1983.

Material for projected book on It is our father who writes: Orders from the Archimandrite’s office at the Monastery of Apollo at Bawit.
Manuscript with photocopies of illustrations, correspondence concerning papyrus Jonathan Byrd 36.2 and other papyri, and annotated photocopied articles.

Material for projected edition by Sarah Clackson and Anne Boud’hors.
Draft annotated chapters of projected publication with copies of illustrations.
Louvain fragments - notes, transcriptions, b&w and colour scans and a photograph.
Downloaded information on the Louvain collections.
Annotated list of papyrus studies in 1996-97 (in French).
Pages 13-17 of a draft of Art versus archives conference paper, headed ‘Monastery administration’.
KU Leuven Library MSS. Notes by Prof. Vergote, with new inventory numbers by Sarah Clackson.
Leuven Bawit Papyri. Amalgamation of Anne Boud’hors’s individual text files with annotations by Sarah Clackson. Includes floppy disc labelled ‘Papyrus Louvain’ by Anne Boud’hors.
Photographs (b&w) of Bawit papyri, Nos. AB 1 - 57, with notes by Anne Boud’hors.
Notes, annotated photocopies, correspondence including Tomasz Markiewicz’s draft article ‘P. Duke Inv. 469: Fragment of a Coptic contract’, with comments by Sarah Clackson.

P. Louvre Copt. (Bawit) - material for projected edition.
Photographs (b&w) of Bawit papyri in the Louvre.
Notes, transcriptions, translations, photocopies of papyri and related correspondence.
Draft chapter of unpublished work.
Notes on cemeteries of Saqqara and Bawit, photocopied articles on Coptic mortuary stelae, photographs and slides of inscriptions from the church at Bawit and related correspondence.
Correspondence on unedited Bawit inscriptions.
Annotated copy of ‘The evil eye in late antiquity, healers, amulet dealers and amulet makers’.

(for proposed second volume of Coptic and Greek Texts relating to the Hermopolite Monastery of Apa Apollo)
Notes, transcriptions, translations, photographs and photocopies of papyri, and correspondence, including:
Photographs, British Library, ref. Pap/653 A & B verso and recto.
Annotated photocopies relating to P. Belastingmuseum Rotterdam 94, P. Lond. V, P. Yale 1756, P. Vatic. Aphrod. 13, P. Graff II, and poll tax receipts.
Ex-Roca Puig Apollo text, correspondence.
Descriptions of poll tax receipts in draft for publication.
Photograph and notes, Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, F.1948/3.8.
Photographs, Christie’s V138 534/‘13’B; Christie’s ‘22’/BM EA 75322; Christie’s ‘20’, ‘25’, ‘11’, ‘14’ ‘17’, ‘27’.
Photographs (b&w) of Österreichische Nationalbibliothek collection: recto and verso of K 21.120; K 11.413; K 21.123; K 21.121.
Photographs (b&w) - P. Mon. Apollo II: unpublished Lansing BM EA papyri (probably belong in this file).
Draft chapter on tax demands.
Corrigenda to P. Mon. Apollo I & II; correspondence.
Lille papyri, correspondence.
Bawit photocopies and correspondence.
Schøyen Collection, correspondence and colour scans of MS 89/5.
Ede 3087A-C, printouts of b&w scans, photographs and notes.
Pct YBR nos. 4996, 4997, 4998, 5001, 5002, 3553, transcriptions and notes.
Coptic Room in the Louvre, correspondence.
Correspondence on tithes and an annotated article on Bawit texts with some notes.

Howard Carter's notebook, containing 118 pages, manuscript notes on hieroglyphic inscriptions, some accompanied by drawings, copied primarily from Lacau, Pierre 1904-1906: Sarcophages antérieurs au Nouvel Empire (OEB 142822), as well as other publications.

Press cuttings and miscellaneous notes.

Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript drafts, unpublished articles and lectures.

Howard Carter's notes on glass.

Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty.

Howard Carter's drafts of his autobiography were intended for publication, but not completed or published. Carter referred to these drafts as "autobiographical sketches", and the manuscripts and typescripts were most likely composed in the 1930s.

• Earlier annotated manuscript
  • 6 notebooks
  • 219 pages
  • Section/chapter headings within this group include:
    • Sketch I. Introductory
    • Sketch II. An Account of Myself
    • Sketch III. Thebes
    • Sketch IV. The Tomb of the Horse
    • Sketch V. Summer life and a Tale from the Coffee hearth
    • Sketch VI. Three Milk White Camels
    • Sketch VII. A Fortuitous Discovery
    • Sketch VIII. The Valley and the Royal Tomb
    • Sketch IX. Tomb-Robberies and the Fate of the Royal Mummies
    • Sketch XI. The Finding of the tomb of Amenophis I
• Later annotated typescript
  • 8 folders
  • 236 pages
  • Section/chapter headings within this group include:
    • Autobiographical preface
    • The Excavator and his Task
    • The Ancient Egyptian Dwelling, Tomb and Temple
    • Ancient Egyptian Funerary Equipment
    • Sketch of Thebes
    • The Theban Necropolis
    • The Valley of the Tombs of the Kings
    • A History of the Theban Royal Mummies Decadence and Destiny I-IX
    • El-Bab El-Hosân 'The Tomb of the Horse'
    • Summer life in Egypt
    • The Rat and the Snake
    • A Fortuitous Discovery [The discovery of Queen Hatshepsut's tomb]
    • Three Milk White Camels
    • The Finding of the Tomb of Amenophis the First
    • The Cemetery of the Queens'

8 letters from Sir Alan Gardiner to Howard Carter, mostly regarding Carter's copying of the Opet Festival scenes in the Processional Colonnade of the Luxor Temple, but also mention other subjects.
The first letter is dated 24 August 1916 and the last in the group is dated 13 July 1918.

Howard Carter's manuscript index-card catalogue of Egyptian weights in museums, private collections and publications.
Arranged by the size of weight.
The data for each weight has been arranged by Carter under the following sections:

• Weight size
• Shape
• Marked
• Weight (sic)
• [current provenance]
• [bibliography]
• [date]

Howard Carter's manuscript notes on ancient Near Eastern measurements, including measuring rods, most in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
The cubit rods are recorded as follows:

• Carter MSS v.2 [a, b] - Cubit measuring rod, granite, Ptolemaic, found at Dendera, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 45933 [see TopBib v.116A].
• Carter MSS v.2 [a, b] - Cubit measuring rod, granite, Ptolemaic, found at Dendera, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 45932 [see TopBib v.116A].
• Carter MSS v.2 [a, b] - Cubit measuring rod of Panas, basalt, Ptolemaic, found at Dendera, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 45931 [see TopBib v.116A].
• Carter MSS v.2 [d] - Cubit measuring rod, wood, found in the tomb of Sennedjem, Dyn. XIX, TT1, Thebes, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 1941 [see TopBib i2.4].
• Carter MSS v.2 [i] - Cubit measuring rod of Osorkon I, schist, found at Karnak, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 31.12.22.2 [see TopBib ii2.300].
• Carter MSS v.2 [j-k] - Cubit measuring rod of Nektanebos II, schist, found at Karnak, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 31.12.22.1 [see TopBib ii2.300].
• Carter MSS v.2 [l-m] - Cubit measuring rod, schist, found at Karnak, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum [see TopBib ii2.300].

Letter and photograph regarding a brick found at E. & W. Lake Ltd, Park Road, Newhall, near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. These premises were formerly the site of a brickworks owned by Lord Carnarvon, that produced the bricks which were shipped to Egypt for the construction of Carter's house "Castle Carter" (Castle Carter II) at Dra Abu el-Naga, Thebes.

• Photograph of a sample brick stamped "MADE AT BRETBY ENGLAND FOR HOWARD CARTER A.D. THEBES 1910".
• Photocopy of the letter from Mr P. M. White to the Keeper of the Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum, dated 16 February 1985.

Howard Carter's documentation relates to the so-called "Saqqara affair" (Saqqara incident; Sakkarah incident; Sakkara) which led to Carter's resignation from the Egyptian Antiquities Service in 1905.
Including:

• 44 letters, most addressed to Carter as well as copies of Carter's replies.
• Copy of Carter's resignation letter.
• Carter's manuscript report, 41 pages, contains his account of the event, extracts from the letters, and French newspaper reports on the incident.
• The documentation includes letters from:
  • A. Jouraud, on behalf of the French party
  • Emile Brugsch
  • Gaston Maspero
  • James E. Quibell
  • Theodore Davis
  • William E. Garstin
  • Édouard Naville

Two draft letters from Howard Carter to Alan Gardiner regarding Carter's copying of the Opet Festival scenes in the Processional Colonnade of the Luxor Temple, including a proposed schedule and Carter's description of the wall scenes.
The earlier draft letter is not dated, the second draft letter is dated 1 May 1917.

Howard Carter's manuscript notes, recorded in a notebook and 15 loose pages, on ancient Near Eastern weights.

Howard Carter's manuscript index for object numbers including concordance with negative numbers.
Part of Carter's records, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Cemetery, Meir.

Howard Carter's draft plans with measurements, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Group B, Cemetery, Meir.

Howard Carter's manuscript records with plan, tomb B.113 (Carter "M.B.111") of Neferkha, 12th Dynasty, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Group B, Cemetery, Meir.

Howard Carter's manuscript records and drawings of some objects, tomb chapel B.104 (Carter "M.B.104"), Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Group B, Cemetery, Meir.

Howard Carter's records and plan for rock tomb B.4 (Carter "M.B.4"), Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Group B, Cemetery, Meir.

Howard Carter's records for tomb B.3 (Carter "M.B.3"), Senbi, son of Ukh-Hetep, temp. Sesostris I to Amenemhet II, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Group B, Cemetery, Meir.

Howard Carter's sketches of pottery found in tombs, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Groups N and O, Cemetery, Meir.

Howard Carter's annotated typescript, with some additional manuscript notes, with a general description of the necropolis at Meir, and cemetery group areas A-E and N-P.
Dated 15 and 16 December 1918.
Part of Carter's records for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom tombs, Meir.

Howard Carter's manuscript notes, including transcriptions, for titles and attributes mentioned in tomb texts at Meir. Copied from Blackman's publications.
Part of Carter's records for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom tombs, Meir.

Howard Carter's manuscript notes, including transcriptions, names and epithets of wives, princes, princesses and private names mentioned in tomb texts at Meir. Copied from Blackman's publications.
Part of Carter's records for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom tombs, Meir.

Howard Carter's manuscript notes, including transcriptions, list of nomarchs and princes mentioned in texts in tombs at Meir. Copied from Blackman's publications.
Part of Carter's records for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom tombs, Meir.