Letter from Catherine Dent inviting Newberry to tea.

Letter from Douglas Derry to Newberry relating to the Predynastic period and the origins of ancient Egyptians, 13 January 1914.

There are notes by Newberry on the back of the letter on inscriptions on granite statues of Ramesses II.

Correspondence from Cecil Henry Desch including letter thanking Newberry for his contribution to the cost of the analyses of ancient metals for the Sumerian Committee.

Letter of thanks from Henriette Devonshire and referring to photographs of Newberry's textiles.

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.

Correspondence from Said El Dib, a student, thanking Newberry and relating to his examinations.

Correspondence between Ludwig Diels and Newberry including relating to a publication on plants in ancient Egypt [in German].

Correspondence from George F. Wingfield Digby (Victoria & Albert Museum, London) including relating to textiles and the Embroiderer's Guild.

Letter from Porphyrios Dikaios (Cyprus Museum) notifying Newberry of the receipt of a box of 127 scarabs.

Letter from Roy Dobbin referring to an Egyptian report on child marriage.

Letter from George R. Donald relating to accommodation in Dundee.

Letter from S.A. Donaldson (Eton College) asking Newberry to look at a scarab and inviting him to use his house while in Eton.

Note:
MSS 12/77 is also numbered 9

Letter from James Archibald Douglas relating to winged lions, travel and politics.

Letter from Douglas Douglas-Crawford asking Newberry to host a visiting Professor.

Letter from Edgar Dowse referring to the funeral of James Frazer.

Letter from Sir Ernest MacLeod Dowson relating to a memoir of Lyons.

Draft of an unpublished book on Theban dynasties and the tombs of Theban Kings including typed sections, typed and handwritten notes, sketches and extracts from other publications including Belzoni, G.B., Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, (London, 1820) (OEB 134077). There is a draft contents page as follows:

Preface

Chapter I Thebes and its history

II The Theban Necropolis

III The Royal Tombs and their inscriptions

IV The Funeral Furniture

V Records of the Tomb Robberies in Ancient Times

VI Modern Exploration in the Royal Necropolis

Appendix. List of Pharoahs buried at Thebes with notes on their tombs and on the antiquities that have been found in them.

Glossary

Index

This material has been divided between two archival folders for preservation.

Typed draft (3 pages) titled 'The Music of Ancient Egypt'.

Includes: drafts on gold working, minerals and lapis lazuli; draft letter to Sir Henry George Lyons on gold beating, 27 May 1925; and notes on malachite used for eye paint.

Drafts relating to the predynastic period, nomes, ensigns and emblems.

Includes:
-Two versions of a contents page for a publication to be titled ‘The Cults of Predynastic Egypt’, one of which includes the sub-heading ‘A study of the Cults of Predyn[astic] Eg[ypt] As shown in the Decorated Pots of the Second Civil[isation] of Predyn[astic] Eg[ypt] fully illustrated by slides of the ensigns fig[ured] at the mast heads of boats of the period the Scorpion King s Macehead and on Slate Palettes and maps to show their foreign distribution’.
-Several versions of drafts relating to Dr Elise Baumgartel's disagreement with Newberry’s identification of the harpoon ensign in Baumgartel, Elise J. 1947. The cultures of prehistoric Egypt. Oxford: Griffith Institute; Oxford University Press (OEB 18)
-Two handwritten drafts titled ‘The Harpoon Ensigns’ as well as tracings and draft plates
-Draft relating to Scharff, 'Some Prehistoric Vases in the British Museum', in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology XIV (1928) (OEB 14965)
-Handwritten draft on boats in predynastic Egypt including a table showing occurences of nome ensigns or standards. Also includes reference to a rock drawing of a sailing vessel, published in Winkler, H. A., Rock-Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt, Volume 1, plate viii., 1939 (OEB 152765).
-Draft titled 'Cult-signs of the Predynastic Period' with details of occurrences of the signs, also includes traced map showing distribution of predynastic cults, tracings of Andjety and notes on his link to the goat, and notes on the pomegranate tree
-Draft on an ensign on a small pot figured in Morgan, J. de 1896. Recherches sur les origins de l'Égypte: l'âge de la pierre et les métaux, plate ix, no.3. Paris: Ernest Leroux (OEB 145678) and other similar examples which according to Newberry are inaccurate
-Cutting of abstract of Newberry, P.E., 'Remarks on some early Egyptian cults', in Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions, (Oxford, 1908) (OEB 146392)
-Draft titled 'Ensigns figured on pots of the Second Civilisation of the Predynastic Period' with notes
-Drafts relating to the geographical distribution of cults
-Sections of drafts relating to the Tehenu or Libyan Palette (Cairo Museum, CG 14328)
-Revised draft of 'The Petty-Kingdom of the Harpoon and Egypt's earliest Mediterranean Port', in Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, Volume I, pp.17-22 (1908) (OEB 146389)
-Draft plates for Newberry, P.E., 'The Egyptian Cult-object [R22] and the Thunderbolt', in Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, Volume 3, pp.50-2 (1910) (OEB 146356)

Letter from Mohammed Drar relating to the identification of a specimen of wild olive.

Contains drawings and tracings including:
-Mounted cutting with notes on the back describing it as a scene in a 18th Dynasty tomb discovered by Georges Émile Jules Daressy in 1894-5.
-Sketch of a bas-relief from tomb TT57 Kha'emhet or Kha-M-Hat (TopBib i.113)

Letter from Abbé Étienne Drioton relating to a photograph of a stela at the Louvre.

Correspondence from John Percival Droop relating to a traveling scholarship in memory of Professor (Thomas) Eric Peet.

Letter from Margaret Drower relating to a transcription of the text of a vizier statue.

Letter from Prentice Duell mainly relating to travel and work in Greece.

Letter from Dows Dunham (Boston Museum of Fine Arts) arranging to meet Newberry.

Correspondence from J. Nicol Dunn (Morning Post) including relating to an article on Newberry's recent finds.

Letter from M. Edith Durham including a summary of a popular story collected by Vuk Vrchevitch.

Correspondence from Geoffrey Duveen relating to the inscription on a scarab.