Album of newspaper cuttings relating to the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, excavation of the tomb and finds. The album includes a partial index. Roughly half of the album has been filled.
Portfolio titled 'Philoe. / Elephantine, Assuan, Comombo' (ink, last word added in pencil) Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'F' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).
Portfolio titled 'Drawings / Egypt / JB.' (ink) Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'H' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss) Pencil note: 'Furniture (rubbed out), Abu Simbel. etc. / and Nubian Temple ?' (almost certainly by Dr Moss).
Portfolio titled 'Drawings Egypt / JB.' (ink) Pencil note: '10 / Sketches E / Complete' Ink table of contents on piece of paper glued to cover, with pencil marks:
'1 Roman or Saracenic structure Assuan'
'x 2 Kursi Elephantine'
'3 Ibreem Derr Haga (pencil addition) Ibreem and hills beyond'
'4 x Derr Wadi Halfa and last rocks of Delta'
'x 5 Soleb'
'6 Nouri Berkel'
'7 Nouri'
'8 Nouri C L panoramic'
'9 View above 2 Cataract'
'10 Boat Dandour Girf Husseyn'
'11 Weaver. View above 2d Cataract'
Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'I' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss) Pencil note: Nubia (almost certainly by Dr Moss).
Portfolio titled 'Sphinx, Great Pyramid, Memphis etc' (ink) Original ink title: 'Sphinx, Great Pyramid, / Sesostris heads, Memnons.' Pencil additions: 'Memphis etc' after 'Great Pyramid,' and lines crossing out 'Sesostris heads, Memnons' Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'B' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).
Portfolio titled 'Egyptian Antiquities. / JB' (ink) Pencil note: 'Thebes (underlined) & Various Uncertain. / Also about Dr Lee's Collections / Hartwell House' (almost certainly by Dr Moss) Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'D' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).
Portfolio titled 'Thebes' (ink) Pencil note: 'Medamoud, Karnak and Luxor' (almost certainly by Dr Moss) Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'C' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).
Portfolio titled 'Drawings Egypt / JB' (ink) Pencil note: '15' Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'E' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss) Pencil note: 'Various - mostly Thebes' (underlined) (almost certainly by Dr Moss)
Ink table of contents with some pencil notes on piece of paper partially glued to cover:
'1 Alphabet'
'2 Three pieces some women and a child from / a tomb at Thebes (underlined in pencil) / Pillar of a tomb at Sakkara / Name on Trail's block of Basalt'
'3 Name on a tablet Cairo / Name of the Faioum'
'4 Note'
'5 Hierogs invented by Birch'
'6 Hierogs found at Carthage'
'7 Name of places mentioned in the Bible / in and near Egypt'
'8 Hieroglys on the stem of a head rest / Walter Hawkins'
Pencil notes partially covered by piece of paper glued to cover: 'This is a / rubbing / from some / Hieroglyphics / found among / the ruins of / Carthage / Given to me in Egypt'
Pencil note on small piece of paper mounted on verso of cover: 'Ask Prisse where lives / the man who cuts paper / inscriptions' Pencil note on small piece of paper mounted on verso of cover: 'Lahaf / Vermilion / House'.
Portfolio titled 'Drawings Egypt / JB.' (ink) Pencil notes: '12 / Views Egypt / Complete' Pencil notes: 'List within / Mostly Assuan - / 1 Sakk[ara]' (rubbed out) (almost certainly by Dr Moss) Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'G' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).
Portfolio titled 'Tracings Egypt / JB.' (ink) Ink note: 'Tracings Egypt' Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'J' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss) Pencil note: 'Nubia & one Dendera' (originally all underlined, now only 'Nubia') (almost certainly by Dr Moss).
Back cover: Pencil note: 'Tracings Egyptian' (almost certainly by Dr Moss) Pencil note: 'Sketches / Complete'.
Howard Carter's "autopsy" drawings, recording objects in situ on Tutankhamun's body and within the body wrappings.
18 annotated pencil drawings of groups of objects found in the body wrappings and on the body of Tutankhamun, recorded during the autopsy of the King's body, 11-19 November 1925