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Polotsky, Hans Jacob - correspondence

7 letters from Polotsky, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý's secretary to Polotsky, sent in Černý's absence.
Professional as well personal matters:

  • linguistics
  • Coptic etymologies
  • travels of Polotsky and Černý
  • 1968, an oblique reference to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

Poellnitz, F. - correspondence

1 letter from Poellnitz, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Barbara Sewell (Griffith Institute secretary), sent in Černý's absence.
Book exchange and a visit to Oxford by Poellnitz.

Plumley, J. Martin - correspondence

15 letters from Plumley, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Plumley.
Professional as well as personal matters:

  • Coptic studies
  • Plumley's publication, Plumley, J. M., An Introductory Coptic Grammar (Sahidic Dialect) (1948) (OEB 1487)
  • hieratic papyri research in Cambridge, of interest to Černý
  • Plumley's promotion.
  • personal and family matters of both correspondents
  • mutual visits
  • meetings

Pinero, Enrique J. - correspondence

5 letters from Pinero, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý's secretary, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Pinero.
Correspondence with an Argentinian Egyptologist.

Pflüger, Kurt - correspondence

1 letter from Pflüger, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Pflüger.
The decree of Horemhab and specific readings. Pflüger published a paper (see Pflüger, K., 'The Edict of King Haremhab', in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 5 [4] (1946), 260-76 (OEB 147264)) on this topic, an offprint of the article was originally enclosed with the letter. Černý indicated a Fairman and Grdseloff collation along with his own comments.

Peck, Caroline Nestmann - correspondence

1 letter from Lamont Moore, Director of the Yale University Art Gallery.
Information from the Director to Ms Peck (R. A. Parker's secretary at Brown University) concerning the opening times of the gallery during Černý's 1954-5 winter visit.

Parker, Richard A. - correspondence

12 letters from Parker, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Parker, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Barbara Sewell (Griffith Institute secretary) to Parker sent in Černý's absence.
Mainly professional matters with a few personal references:

  • invitations extended to Černý to visit Brown University, the earliest sent in 1950
  • exchange of offprints
  • students from Brown University in the UK (Richard Pierce)
  • assessments of students and colleagues (H. Goedicke)
  • the consequences of the Suez crisis for institutions in Egypt, particularly IFAO, 1956
  • Demotic papyri
  • mathematical texts
  • material from Soknopaious Nesos

Omlin, Joseph A. - correspondence

1 letter from Omlin.
Request for assistance reading some hieratic captions in papyrus Turin 55001 (see later publication, Omlin, J. A. Der Papyrus 55001 und seine satirisch-erotischen Zeichnungen und Inschriften (1973) (OEB 16729)).

Norton, Patricia - correspondence

4 letters from Norton, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Norton.
Černý correspondence with the book reviews Editor for The Economist newspaper, Černý reviewed: Goneim, M. Zakaria The Buried Pyramid (1956) (OEB 5172).

Nobel Prize Committee - correspondence

2 letters from the Nobel Prize Committee, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to the Nobel Prize Committee.
Nobel Prize Committee asking for Černý's nominations for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 and 1966. For 1964, Černý proposed Jean-Paul Sartre; in 1966, he declined, citing extensive fieldwork preparations as a priority.

Nims, Charles Francis - correspondence

10 letters from Nims, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Nims.
Professional and personal matters:

  • Nims' publication - Nims, C. F., 'An oracle dated in "the repeating of births"', in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 7 [3] (1948), 157-62 (OEB 1469)
  • other oracles
  • Medînet Habu Geographical list
  • meetings

Newberry, Percy E. - correspondence

10 letters from Newberry, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Newberry.
Personal matters and research:

  • reading the name of king Khendjer, South Saqqâra, TopBib iii2.434
  • Rosellini memorial volume, see Scritti dedicati alla memoria di Ippolito Rosellini nel primo centenario della morte (4 giugno 1943) (1945) (OEB 149922)
  • news on other Egyptologists, particularly E. Iversen and G. Steindorff

Nevinson, J. L. - correspondence

1 letter from Nevinson, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Nevinson.
Černý's participation in the UNESCO mission in Nubia, includes a brief report from the 1956 season.

Neugebauer, Otto - correspondence

6 letters from Neugebauer, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Neugebauer.
2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to R. O. Faulkner, concerning Neugebauer's publication plans and photographs.
Neugebauer's studies, Greek and Coptic horoscopes (publication using Neugebauer material see, Černý, J., Kahle, P. E. and Parker R. A. 'The Old Coptic Horoscope', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 43 (1957), 86-100 (OEB 774)).

Nagel, Georges - correspondence

17 letters from Nagel, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Nagel.
4 letters between third parties concerning photographs of papyri for G. Nagel.

  • fieldwork in Egypt
  • papyrus of Nu, in London, British Museum, EA 10477 (11)
  • papyrus of Ramose, in Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, E.2.1922
  • books and offprints
  • visits and travel
  • shared research interests in Deir el-Medîna, including ostraca
  • personal matters

Müller, H. W. - correspondence

2 letters from Černý, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to H. W. Müller.
Studies in Coptic and Černý's references requested for: Westendorf, W., Koptisches Handwörterbuch. Bearbeitet auf Grund des Koptischen Handwörterbuchs Wilhelm Spiegelbergs (1965-1977) (OEB 20563).

Müller, Dieter - correspondence

6 letters from D. Müller.
Ostraca in the Leipzig Museum, publication plans, personal matters including Müller's emigration from East to West Germany. Müller's acknowledgement of Černý offprint (Černý, J., 'Thoth as Creator of Languages', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 34 (1948), 121-2 (OEB 1279)).

Moss, Rosalind B. - correspondence

25 letters from Moss, 2 copies of letters from Černý to Moss.
6 letters from Moss to Jean Tudor-Pole (Černý's secretary at University College London), 4 letters from Tudor Pole to Moss.
Materials and data for the Topographical Bibliography:

  • especially sites in Sinai
  • objects in Brooklyn Museum and other US museums
  • objects in Turin, Museo Egizio
  • statue of Queen Karomama in the Louvre, TopBib i2.681-2
  • travel information
  • contacts with the international Egyptological community

Morenz, Siegfried - correspondence

7 letters from S. Morenz.
2 letters, correspondence between Černý and the Home Office, concerning a visa for S. Morenz.
S. Morenz's planned trip to the UK; objects in Leipzig (stela of Penbuy, in Leipzig Museum, 5141, TopBib i2.732); an invitation to contribute to Festschrift Anthes (see Černý, J., 'A Note on the Chancellor Bay', in Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 93 (1966), 35-9 (OEB 11676)).

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