Letter from W.J. Pythian-Adams including relating to a visit to England.

Note:
MSS 35/79 is also numbered 243

Correspondence from Christopher James Purnell (Librarian, London Library) including relating to the loan of material for exhibition and bombing during the Second World War.

Agreement for the purchase by Newberry from Theodore M. Davis of the dahabiah or house boat known as the 'Beduin' for

Folder including versions of a bibliography of Newberry.

Includes:

• Reprint, proof copy, typed draft and photocopy of Magee, Diana, 'The Egyptological Bibliography of Percy Edward Newberry (1869-1949), in JEA 76, 1990 (OEB 32075).

• Correspondence relating to the bibliography of Percy Newberry, 1989.

• Numbered list 1-61 of Newberry's publications under the title 'Extracts from my Note-books'.

• Photocopy of Newberry, Percy E., 'Notes on the History of Medicine in Ancient Egypt', in The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, 24 November 1888, p. 405-408.

Letter from Arthur Probsthain relating to publication quality.

Letter of thanks from Frederick George Hilton Price (1842-1909).

Note:
MSS 35/72 is also numbered A.359

Folder titled by John Harris 'PRESS CUTTINGS' with newspaper cuttings glued or fastened on to each page.

Newpaper cuttings are on a range of topics relating to ancient Egypt and Egyptology including congresses taking place, exhibitions such as the exhibition of Egyptian Art at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, book reviews, news relating to Percy Newberry, current research, obituaries, Sudan, Libya and the Libyan Desert.

Folder titled 'Predynastic Kings names Palermo and Cairo fragments', containing material relating to Predynastic Egypt.

Includes:

• Drafts on the history of Predynastic Egypt

• Notes on 'paleolithic implants' in Egypt

• Typed notes on the 'Predynastic Population'

• Handwritten notes on flints

• One page of a handwritten draft and notes on the Chalcolithic Period

• Notes on Predynastic pottery

• Tracings of Predynastic pottery depicting boats

• One page of a handwritten draft titled 'Some Cults of Prehistoric Egypt'

• Three pages of a handwritten draft on cult insignia

• Draft letter to Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards on research activity, 30 December 1947

Correspondence from A. T. Camden Pratt (Editor of “The Globe”) relating to contributions from Newberry.

MSS 35/69 incomplete and MSS 35/70 includes notes and calculations on the back.

Note:
MSS 35/69 is also numbered 12a
MSS 35/70 is also numbered 12
MSS 35/71 is also numbered 12

Correspondence from J.P. Postgate relating to a visit by Carl and Therese Lehmann-Haupt.

Correspondence from Godfrey Pope relating to the loan of a book.

Correspondence from Reginald Stuart Poole (1832-1895) including arranging to meet Newberry, commenting on a paper by Newberry and giving advice on excavation work.

Note:
MSS 35/53 is also numbered A.58
MSS 35/54 is also numbered 151
MSS 35/56 is also numbered 150
MSS 35/57 is also numbered 93
MSS 35/58 is also numbered 145
MSS 35/60 is also numbered 25
MSS 35/61 is also numbered 143
MSS 35/62 is also numbered 64
MSS 35/63 is also numbered 65
MSS 35/64 is also numbered 24

Letter from H. G. Plimmer inviting Newberry to dinner.

Folder titled 'Geography. Egypt. General. Name etc.' including:

-Typed list titled 'Tells and Koms mentioned in the Arabic Sibakh-List of December 1909'

-Notes on, and lists of place names

Correspondence from Theophilus Goldridge Pinches (1856-1934) including referring to a list of Egyptian names (1903) and thanking Newberry for his notes on a lapis cylinder (1921).

Note:
MSS 35/48 is also numbered 64

Correspondence from Sarah M. Pier (wife of Garrett Chatfield Pier) relating to Egyptian antiquities and the publication of an inscription.

Note:
MSS 35/46 is also numbered A.333

Letter from Garrett Chatfield Pier (1875-1943) relating to the purchase of Egyptian antiquities.

Photographs of stelae including from the Amherst collection. The photographs have been identified during previous archival processing and museum reference numbers and Topographical Bibliography references have been written on the back.

Includes:
-Stela, Amenophis IV, Queen and three princesses (Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum, 14145) (TopBib iv.232)
-Stela of Amenophis III, granite, originally in his Temple (Cairo Museum, CG 34025) (TopBib ii.447)
-Ankh-hathor, Prophetess of Hathor Mistress of the Sycamore in all her places, and of Neith North of the Wall Opener of the Ways, temp. Userkaf or later (Princeton University Art Museum) (TopBib iii.746)
-Two stelae of Mentuhotpi (Liverpool Merseyside County Museum, M.25.11.05.178) (TopBib v.165A) and (Liverpool Institute of Archaeology, E.67) (TopBib v.165A)
-Stela of Ipep (TopBib v.165A)
-Stela of Djedetemiuefankh (Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, 1920.1977
-Kaemmedu, Overseer of interpreters, false door with figure in high relief (Copenhagen Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, 1549) (TopBib i.803)
-Stela of Meritneit (Cairo Museum, JE 34550) (TopBib v.82)
-Family stela of Zeamunefankh (Cairo Museum, 43197) (TopBib i.619)
-Stela of Remenyankh (Cairo Museum, 20571) (TopBib v.267)
-Stela of Amenuser (Mrs Josephine Fisher Private Collection) (TopBib v.67)
-Stela of Hatiay (Cairo Museum, temporary number 2.11.24.1) (TopBib v.58A)
-Upper part of false door, west wall of tomb of Rehotp (British Museum, 1242) (TopBib iv.91)
-Stela of Miy (Brussels Cinquantenaire Museum, E5300) (TopBib v.99)
-Stela of Ken with Ahmosi (Berlin Museum 14200) (TopBib iv.59)
-Stela of Akhmim (Baltimore Museum, 23.124) (TopBib v.23)
-Three stelae of Senusret (Louvre Museum, C16-18)
-Stela of Titi (Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum E.1.1840) (TopBib 803-028-430)
-Stela of Nubkas (Louvre Museum, C13)
-Stela of Senbi (Liverpool Merseyside County Museum, M.13635)
-Stela of Senen (Liverpool Merseyside County Museum, M.13661)
-Stela, including hand copy of inscriptions (Cairo Museum, CG 20724)
-Stela of Rawer from the Giza necropolis in situ (Cairo Museum, JE 66626) (TopBib iii.67(22)) (PEN/G.IV/F.B)

Stelae from the Amherst Collection:
-Stela of [Har]emhab (Leiden Museum, F.1926/1.1) (TopBib 803-049-812)
-Stela of Ptahemsaf (Wilborg Collection) (TopBib iii.748)
-Stela of Huy (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 21.2.67)
-Stela, possibly of Webenameniotef
-Panel of false door of Sonb, Giza (TopBib iii.302)

Photographs and postcards of statues from museums, mostly Cairo Museum. The photographs have been identified during previous archival processing with Topographical Bibliography references written on the back.

Includes:

• Green schist statue of Mentuhotep VI (TopBib 800-440-100) (British Museum, EA 65429)
• Head of Amun with features of Tutankhamun (TopBib 802-049-080) (Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art, E.5698)
• Psammethek in front of Hathor Cow [postcard] (TopBib iii.671) (Cairo Museum, 784)
• Senenmut with Princess Neferure (TopBib ii.134) (Cairo Museum, 42114)
• Nufer [postcard] (TopBib iii.723) (Cairo Museum, CG 145)
• Head of Tii (also known as the head of Mut) [postcard] (TopBib ii.84)
• Ramesses IV with captive [postcard]
• Head, possibly Amenophis I (TopBib ii.72) (Cairo Museum, JE 52364)
• Statues previously in the Amherst Collection
• Block Statue of Vizier User (TopBib ii.127) (Louvre Museum, A.127)
• Statuette of Reshef (TopBib 802-044-250) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 89.2.215)
• Bust of Iker (TopBib i.651) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 26.7.1393)
• Statue of a boar (British Museum, 51094)
• Painted statues of Prince Rahotpu and his wife Princess Nofrit (TopBib iv.91) (Cairo Museum, 3 and 4)
• Sesostris I (TopBib iv.84) (Cairo Museum, CG 44951)
• Wehebre (TopBib iv.47) (Cairo Museum, CG 672)
• Anubis [postcard] (TopBib iv.26A) (Cairo Museum, CG 38517)
• Ptah [postcard] (TopBib iii.833) (Cairo Museum, CG 38429)
• Statue called The Cheikh-el-Beled or head man of the Village [postcard] (TopBib iii.459) (Cairo Museum, CG 34)
• Osiris and Isis (TopBib iii.670) (Cairo Museum, CG 38884 and 38358)
• Statuettes from tomb of Hesi (TopBib iii.286) (Cairo Museum, JE 72225-6)
• Triple statue of Mersuankh (TopBib iii.270) (Cairo Museum, JE 66618)
• Statue of a female brewer (TopBib iii.270) (Cairo Museum, JE 66624)
• Face of a male statue (TopBib iii.268) (Cairo Museum, JE 66625)
• Triple statue of a man, standing, from the tomb of Mersuankh (TopBib iii.268) (Cairo Museum, JE 66616)
• Triple statue of Rawer (TopBib iii.266) (Cairo Museum, JE 66615)
• Khafre [postcard] (TopBib iii.22) (Cairo Museum, CG 14)
• Head of Taharqa (TopBib ii.533) (Cairo Museum, CG 560)
• Colossus of Merneptah [postcard] (TopBib ii.448) (Cairo Museum, CG 607)
• Tuthmosis III [postcard] (TopBib ii.137) (Cairo Museum, CG 42053)
• Incomplete group statue of Ramesses III crowned by Horus (TopBib ii.526) (CG 629 and 1100)
• Tueris as hippopotamus [postcard] (TopBib ii.285-286) (Cairo Museum, CG 39145)
• Double statue of Sennufer and wife Sentnay with daughter Mutnefert (TopBib ii.283) (Cairo Museum CG 42126
• Amenophis II [postcard] (TopBib ii.282) (Cairo Museum, CG 39394)
• Senenmut (TopBib ii.262) (Cairo Museum, CG 579)
• Dhout [postcard] (TopBib ii.202) (Cairo Museum, CG 42123)
• Pedeamun-nebnesuttaui (TopBib ii.155) (Cairo Museum, JE 36908)
• Pedamenopet (TopBib ii.154) (Cairo Museum, JE 37341)
• Harkhebi (TopBib ii.150) (Cairo Museum, CG 42231)
• Nekhtefmut (TopBib ii.148) (Cairo Museum, CG 42207)
• Neferpert [postcard] (TopBib ii.144-5) (Cairo Museum, CG 42121)
• Queen Esi (TopBib ii.144) (Cairo Museum, CG 42072)
• Bronze schilbe fish from the top of a standard (British Museum, EA37449)
• Syria (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.45.3.121)

Photographs of sarcophagi, including from the Amherst collection, and one photograph of an offering table.

The photographs have been identified during previous archival processing with museum references and Topographical Bibliography references written on the back.

Includes:

Fragment of a sarcophagus naming Unnefer (TopBib iii.763A)

An early Ptolemaic coffin later in the Brummer collection

Sarcophagus of Ay (Cairo Museum, JE 72131) (TopBib i.551)

Sarcophagus of Kamy [postcard] (Brooklyn Museum, 37.15E) (TopBib i.822)

Photographs of rock inscriptions at Shatt el Rigal and Aswan, and the Medamud Temple portico (also known as the Temple of Montu). The photographs have been identified during previous archival processing with Topographical Bibliography references.

Includes photographs of:
-Rock texts at Shatt el-Rigal (TopBib v.207)
-Medamud Temple portico (TopBib v.140)
-Graffito of Bak at Aswan (TopBib v.249) including copy of inscriptions
-Stela of man (name destroyed) before cartouches Amenophis III (TopBib v.224)

Photographs of reliefs identified during previous archival processing with Topographical Bibliography references and museum references.

Includes:

-Block showing Queen offering two obelisks to Amun from Shrine of Hatshepsut with boy lying on top (TopBib ii.67[VII.112 (302)])

-Relief of Queen offering wine to King from house O.49.1 of Pewah, el-Amarna (TopBib iv.205) (Berlin Museum, 20716)

-Fragment with name of Khui (TopBib iv.259) (Cairo Museum, JE 43107)

-Fragment showing Ka servant (joins with part in Boston Museum, 34.58)

-Fragment showing chariots from Great Temple, el-Amarna (TopBib iv.195) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 27.6.1)

-Relief from West Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I showing Sethos I and Ramesses I making offerings (TopBib vi.31) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 11.155.3B)

-Relief from Temple of Sethos I (TopBib vi.8(92))

-Boundary Stela of Senusret I (Cairo Museum, temporary number 10.4.22.7)

-Architrave of Irenre (TopBib iii.760)

-Stela of Rawer (TopBib iii.267) (Cairo Museum, JE 66626)

-Block with heads of first pair of princesses from tomb of Kharuef (TopBib i.299(7)) (Berlin Museum, 18526)

-Relief from TT279 Pabasa (TopBib i.357)

Photographs of objects including reliefs, rock inscriptions, busts, statues, pots, jewellery, furniture, vases, palettes, bricks, wand, daggers, chariot side and obelisks.

Includes photographs of:
-Copy of inscriptions by Robert Hay on a slab of stone from the tomb of a Royal Scribe (British Museum)
-Jamb from tomb of Maya (Rochester University Memorial Art Gallery, New York, 42.55) (TopBib iii.661)
-Stela of Sobekhotep III (TopBib vii.277)
-Head of Amenophis III (Berlin Museum, 21299) (TopBib iv.203)
-Wooden kohl-pot in form of kneeling man with vase on head (Cairo Museum, JE 31382)
-Three Naqada pots in the Ashmolean from Flinders Petrie’s 1895 Excavations (Ashmolean Museum, 1895.591, 1895.592 and 1895.583)
-Jewellery in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
-Egyptian Chair (Brooklyn Museum, 37.40E)
-Vase of Memeptah (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 23.5)
-Bricks of Amenophis I and Ahmosi Nefertere (TopBib ii.343)
-Ebony wand with names and titles of King Meryebre Khety (TopBib iv.258) (Cairo Museum, JE 42835)
-Palette with hunting-scene (two fragments at British Museum, 20790, 20792) (one fragment at Louvre Museum, E. 11254)
-Bracelet of Ahmose I (Cairo Museum, CG 52069) (TopBib i.600)
-Bed (Cairo Museum, CG 51110) (TopBib i.564)
-Chair of Teye (Cairo Museum, CG 51112) (TopBib i.563)
-Label of King Den (British Museum, 55586) (TopBib v.84)
-Dagger hilt of Nehemen (Cairo Museum, CG 52768) (TopBib iii.552)
-Dagger of Asmosis (Cairo Museum, CG 52658) (TopBib i.601)
-Pectoral of Ahmosi I (Cairo Museum, 52004) (TopBib i.600)
-Piece of wood with name of Khui (Cairo Museum, JE 43108) (TopBib iv.259)
-Mummified hawk’s head (Cairo Museum, CG 14717) (TopBib v.191)
-Chariot of Tuthmosis IV (Cairo Museum, CG 46097) (TopBib i.560)
-Cubit-measure, Nakhy (Liverpool Museum, M.13825) (TopBib i.748)
-Obelisk of Hatshepsut (Cairo Museum, CG 17012) (TopBib ii.218)
-Two wooden tablets ('Carnarvon Tablets') with hieratic texts (JE 43261 and JE 56802) (TopBib i.618-9)
-Photographs of a naos previously part of the Amherst collection (Copenhagen Museum, AE.IN 1555)
-Photograph of a model boat (Cairo Museum, CG 4918) (TopBib iv.265)
-Photograph titled on the back 'rectangular upright oblong box' (Cairo Museum, CG 51034)
-Two photographs of a jar and small mummy (Cairo Museum, CG 51018-21; CG 51022) (TopBib i.563)

Photographs of tombs in Thebes and views of the Theban necropolis. The photographs of tombs have been identified during previous archival processing and the tomb numbers written on the back.

Includes:

-Views of the Valley of the Kings

-Views of the Theban Necropolis

-Sarcophagus chamber in the royal tomb of Haremhab TT57 (TopBib i.568)

-TT93 Tomb of Qenamun

-TT219 Tomb of Nebenmaat, including notes on the tomb on the back, possibly by Pierre Jouguet

-TT277 Tomb of Ameneminet

Photographs housed in an envelope labelled 'PEN/G.XIII/E.A - Various Photographs'. Includes photographs of landscapes, flora, presses, and a floral garland found in a tomb at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in 1885.

Includes:

-Photograph labelled on the reverse 'Enlargement of a photograph by Major Brown, Inspector General of Irrigation, Upper Egypt. Inscription relating to the Colossal Statue at El Bersheh.' (TopBib iv.180(14-15))

-Two photographs of the exterior of the tomb of Pedusiri (TopBib iv.169).

The photographs have been identified during previous archival processing with Topographical Bibliography references written on the back.

Photographs from sites at Thebes including photograph and cuttings of drawings and plans of the Colossi of Memnon (or statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III) (TopBib ii.449) and official photographs taken at Deir el-Bahari by A. Gaddis & G. Seif.

Also includes photographs of:

-Statue of Khons (Cairo Museum, CG 38488) (TopBib ii.237)

-Scene from Temple of Sethos (TopBib ii.415(78))

-Scene from Court in Luxor Temple showing decorated bulls (TopBib ii.308(29))

-Nile-gods binding sma-symbol on sides on throne (TopBib ii.313(70))

-Colossi between columns at Luxor Temple (TopBib ii.311(58)-(59))

-Statue of Hathor Cow [postcard] (TopBib ii.380)

-View of Karnak

Photographs of tomb scenes at Abydos, Esna and Kom Ombo. The photographs have been identified during previous archival processing with Topographical Bibliography references written on the back.

Includes:

-Temple of Esna (TopBib vi.110)

-Third scence, fourth register from Temple of Esna (TopBib vi.114-115(25)-(29))

-Scene from lower register of Chapel of Horus, Temple of Sethos I (TopBib vi.18(170))

-Scenes from First Osiris Hall, Temple of Sethos I (TopBib vi.19(177)-(178)) (TopBib vi.19(183)-(184))

-View of Kom Ombo (TopBib vi.179)

Photograph of kneeling Asiatics on the south side of the third colossus at the Great Temple, Abu Simbel (TopBib vii.100(26)).

Notebook titled 'WORDS' containing handwritten notes on hieroglyphs, including occurences of hieroglyphs, references to published sources, variations of different hieroglyphs and translations. Part of the notebook includes lists of hieroglyphs organised by subject.

The notebook is no longer held together at the spine and contains a lot of loose pages and pieces of paper.