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Percy Edward Newberry Collection File English
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Holme, Geoffrey - correspondence

Letter from Geoffrey Holme (Editor, "The Studio" Publishers) asking to speak to Newberry about a volume on embroidery.

There is a note by Newberry to say that he will call at 11am Wednesday, 20 February 1921.

Home, Gordon - correspondence

Correspondence from Gordon Home including relating to a letter written to The Times opposing the industrialisation of part of Surrey and the loan of books on North Africa and the Swedish expedition to Cyprus.

Note:
MSS 25/1 is also numbered A.136
MSS 25/3 is also numbered A.176

James, M. R. - correspondence

Correspondence from M. R. James (Provost of Eton) relating to selling a blue faience chalice and cataloguing the Myer collection of Egyptian antiquities.

Note:
MSS 26/42 is also numbered A.179

Kirwan, Larry P. - correspondence

Correspondence from Larry P. Kirwan including relating to his application and interview for a post at the Victoria & Albert Museum and draft reply from Newberry on the post and referring to T. Eric Peet's death.

Knight, Alfred E. - correspondence

Correspondence from Alfred E. Knight (Spink & Son Ltd., Art Gallery and Museum of Antiquities) relating to the sale of the MacGregor collection of Egyptian antiquities including terms of agreement with Newberry for his part in the sale.

Note:
MSS 27/116 is also numbered A.378

Lamb, (Sir) Walter Rougeby - correspondence

Correspondence from Sir Walter Rougeby Lamb (Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts, London) relating to an 'International Exhibition of the Art of Greater India' scheduled to be held in 1940 but cancelled due to the outbreak of war.

Langdon, Stephen Herbert - correspondence

Correspondence from Stephen Herbert Langdon (1876-1937) including relating to ladanum, making arrangements to visit and a lecture by Newberry at the University of Oxford.

Note:
MSS 28/26 is also numbered 312
MSS 28/27 is also numbered 312a
MSS 28/28 is also numbered 382

Loret, Victor - correspondence

Correspondence from Victor Loret (1859-1946) including relating to excavation work at Drah Abou'l Neggah (1898) and research on the olive and moringa (1923).

Includes letter granting permission to the Marquis of Northampton assisted by Newberry and Wilhelm Spiegelberg to excavate at Drah Abou'l Neggah including sketch map of the permitted area, 2 November 1898, and draft letter to Loret relating to the contract and the geographical limits of the excavation.

Also includes telegram from Howard Carter to Newberry stating work had been stopped by the inspector, December 1898.

Note:
MSS 29/31 is also numbered 10
MSS 29/32 is also numbered 14
MSS 29/34 is also numbered 12
MSS 29/35 is also numbered A.183
There is also a telegram without a reference which is numbered 11

Lord Northampton's Excavation Diary

Diary titled by Newberry 'The Theban Necropolis - Excavations 1898-1899 - Account of Men's wages for the Marquis of Northampton'.

Front section contains lists of men, the days worked and their wages.

On the front page of the diary Newberry has written 'Small service is true service whilst it lasts - of friends however humble scorn not one - The daisy by the shadow that it casts - Protects the lingering dew drop from the sun' and below 'If by such rose we see - A thorn there grows - Strive that no thorn shall be - Without its rose'.

Diary contains a brief daily log of activities and details of payments made, 1 January 1899 to 9 April 1899.

This item has been digitised and transcribed.

Biographical material including history of the Egypt Exploration Society

Folder contains:

  • First page of a report titled 'Report on the work of the Archaological Institute' written by Newberry on his involvement establishing an Archaeological Institute at the University of Liverpool

  • Short history of the Archaeological Survey of Egypt (now known as the Egypt Exploration Society) by Newberry including his involvement, with hand written corrections and notes c.1931-2 (written for the 50th anniversary meeting of the EES (see AHG/42.222.33, Griffith Institute)), and list of Officers-in-Charge of the Survey, 1890-1932

  • Letter lists 1887-1892 with a short summary of contents and numbered, these numbers correspond to numbers written on letters held in this collection

  • Handwritten notes on the history of the Archaeological Survey of Egypt

  • One page of typed notes on people who worked on the tomb of Tutankhamun

Genealogical material

Genealogical material including correspondence relating to genealogy, family trees, notes on members of the family.

Includes:

  • Financial summary of the late Mrs Newberry's estate, 1871.
  • Newspaper clippings relating to a court case between a Mr. Newberry (possibly Newberry's father Henry James Newberry) and his neighbour over the death of two of the neighbour's horses after they ate Yew tree cuttings from the latter's garden, March 1872.
  • Order for the burial of the dead for Caroline Newberry, 4th January 1919.
  • Sale catalogue for the property of the late Mrs Newberry, 1871.
  • Letter of probate relating to the estate of Caroline Elizabeth Newberry (-1863), 16th October 1866.
  • Reprint from The Parmaceutical Journal, 24th February 1906, on the history of Francis Newbery Sons Limited
    -Wyatt family trees
  • Typed article on Ralph Newbery (1560-1605) and correspondence relating to a children's book called Dives pragmaticus - the Great Marchant Man - a book in English Metre written by Thomas Newbery in 1563 and reprinted with an introduction by Percy Newberry in 1910.
  • Newspaper cutting on the funeral of Robert S. Johnston
  • Photograph of a woman and child, c.1855-1880
  • Bill for funeral arrangements for the late Amy Louisa Newberry, April 1859
  • Financial details relating to the division of the late Mrs Newbery's estate
  • Remembrance cards
  • Copy of an indenture relating to the sale of property
  • Sketches of family crests
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