Correspondence from Spencer R. Humbey relating to a granite statue of Ramesses II.

Letter from Charles H. Hunt (Curator, Bootle Museum) relating to the value of a stolen gold wire pendant.

Letter from John Hutchinson (Kew Herbarium) arranging for Newberry to visit.

Letter from John Johnson (Oxford University Press) referring to a trip to Mersa Matruh.

Correspondence from Marcus Johnson relating to staying with Newberry.

Letter and receipt from T.A. Jones for his subscription to the Liverpool Geological Society.

Letter from Thomas Atholl Joyce (British Museum) relating to an enquiry by Newberry on figures on the cabins of Barotse canoes including elephants and antelopes.

Correspondence from Winifred A. Keeves (Secretary, Egypt Exploration Society) including relating to Newberry's subscription to the EES and in response to enquiries by Newberry on material held by the EES.

Correspondence from Doris L. Kelham (née Tattersall) including arranging to meet in London and with reference to Howard Carter and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Note:
MSS 27/59 is also numbered A.18
MSS 27/63 is also numbered 223

Letter from Ahmed Khalil (Hall Porter, Winter Palace, Luxor) enclosing his photograph.

Letter from C. G. Laing (Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) requesting photographs of papyrus being grown at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in relation to research on Egyptian columns.

Correspondence from W. Melville Lee arranging to meet Dr Coopland.

Note:
This letter is also numbered 313

Letter from Louis Theophile Lefort requesting to see a papyrus in the Amherst collection [in French].

Note:
The signature has been identified during previous archival processing as Lafort

Correspondence from Dora Little relating to travel in Europe. Also includes request for information on a granite amulet with a sketch.

Letter from O. H. Little (Geological Survey of Egypt) in response to an enquiry from Newberry on literature on the vegetation of the El Arish District.

Letter of thanks from C. M. Lloyd on behalf of Sir John Brunner.

Note:
This letter is also numbered A.278

Correspondence from Allys R. Lortet relating to her house in France and selling a 16th century carpet.

Also includes calling card with list of luggage made by Newberry on the back.

Correspondence from Alfred Lucas including relating to: arranging to visit Newberry; cleaning an inscribed bowl; response to criticisms by Newberry of a book by Lucas; wish to see a wooden tongue from Tututankhamun's shrine; Walter Segal and his study of furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Note:
MSS 29/50 is also numbered 217a
MSS 29/51 is also numbered 217
MSS 29/52 is also numbered 13
MSS 29/55 is also numbered A.107

Folder containing photocopies of the following articles and obituaries:

• 'Percy Newberry (1869-1949)', in Garden History 5(1), p. 45 (1977)
• 'Newberry, Percy Edward (1869-1949)', Dictionary of National Biography 1941-1950 (Oxford, 1959)
• 'Newberry, Percy Edward', Who Was Who 1941-1950 (1981)
• Newberry, Percy, 'Gardening 6000 Years Ago' in The Gardeners' Chronicle, no. 678, 23 December 1899
• 'Excavations at Thebes' read by J.E. Newberry, in The Builder, 5 November 1898
• Newberry, Percy, 'Obituary Notices - Mr. Howard Carter', in Nature, 25 March 1939
• Newberry, Percy, 'Obituary Notices - Sir Robert Mond F.R.S.', in Nature, 12 November 1938

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.

Folder titled 'DYN. IV, V, VI' containing notes relating to the 4th Dynasty, 5th Dynasty and 6th Dynasty.

Includes:

• Notes on King lists for the 4th, 5th and 6th Dynasties
• Notes relating to Menkaure, Khafre, Khufu and Snefru
• Notes on cylinder seals from the 5th Dynasty
• Notes on Neith and the pyramid of Neith published by Gustave Jéquier in Jéquier, G. 1933. Les pyramides des reines Neit et Apouit. Fouilles à Saqqarah. Le Caire: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (OEB 141991)
• Notes on Aba and the pyramid of Aba published by Gustave Jéquier in Jéquier, G. 1935. La pyramide d'Aba. Fouilles at Saqqarah.. Le Caire: Impr. De l'IFAO (OEB 141989)

Correspondence from Lady Margaret Susan Amherst (d. 1919) (wife of Lord Amherst of Hackney) relating to: Newberry's work at Tel el Armana and Beni Hassan; the purchase of items including requests that Newberry purchase certain items on their behalf; Howard Carter's appointment; fraud and sale of house and belongings (1906); Newberry's divorce trial.

Note:
MSS 2/47a is also numbered 2/61
MSS 2/47b is also numbered 2/62 and 255

Correspondence from Lady Alicia Margaret Amherst (5th daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney; married 1898, Sir Evelyn Gascoyne-Cecil) mostly relating to research for her book on the history of gardening. Correspondence 1907 relating to the need to raise money, the sale of books and asking Newberry to seek an interview with Carnegie on the families behalf.

Research material on tomb and rock inscriptions including at Aswan and Sehel

Includes:
-Cartouches of Neferhotep I and Sesostris III from rock texts at Sehel Island (TopBib v.250), text of Haankhef from rock text at Konosso (TopBib v.254), and text of Neferhotep I and family from rock text at Aswan (TopBib v.246)
-Copy of text from the 'famine stela' (Brooklyn Museum, 9.4.004) (TopBib v.252(81))
-Copy of names and titles from tombs at Aswan including Mekhu and Sabni (TopBib v.231(1-2)), Heqaib (TopBib v.232), Sirenput II (TopBib v.233), Aku (TopBib v.234), Khui (TopBib v.235), Khunes (TopBib v.235), Khenuseu (TopBib v.235), Herkhuf (TopBib v.237), Pepynakht (TopBib v.237), Senmosi (TopBib v.237), Sirenput I (TopBib v.238), Sebkhotp (TopBib v.239), Khuenkhnum (TopBib v.240), Thethi (TopBib v.240), Sen (TopBib v.240), Iba (TopBib v.240) and extract from a letter from Professor Elmar Edel to whom these notes had been sent for consultation in connection with his work (in German)
-Copy of inscriptions including from Aswan, Bijeh, and Sehel copied from Morgan, J. de, Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'égypte antique. Première série, Haute égypte, (1894) (OEB 136449)

Correspondence from Sir Alan Gardiner including on research, travel, his family, publication of articles in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, and contemporary Egyptologists.

Includes correspondence relating to: the Ramasseum papyri; inscriptions including the inscriptions of Mes; work in Egypt including at the tombs of Amenemapt, User and Rekhmara, and the Osireon at Abydos; occurrences of names; the Carnavon tablet; Gardiner’s catalogue of Theban tombs; requesting notes from Newberry on tombs including the tomb of Khety; Gardiner's copy of an inscription compared to a copy by Max Müller; the Egypt Exploration Society (EES); Blackman taking pupils out to Egypt in 1919; employment of Mary Jonas as secretary to the EES; exhibition at the Burlington Fine Arts Club; confirmation of Newberry’s publication of scene in Tomb of Huy; work of Amice Calverley; funding for the EES; Newberry’s resignation from the EES; purchase of papyri for the British Museum; philology and deciphering hieroglyphs; Carter’s papers on tomb of Tutankhamun; the Second World War including news of Gardiner’s son John; research on the owl; agricultural land in Egypt; Menes; the Turin papyrus; Nitocris; writing a companion to Egyptian studies; obituary of Petrie written by Newberry; death of Paul Smither; Miss Phyllis Walker's donation of Howard Carter's records to the Ashmolean and infringement of copyright; contact with German Egyptologists after World War Two; Bonomi papers; etc.

Egyptologists mentioned include Henry Lyons, Flinders Petrie, T. Eric Peet, Arthur Weigall, Pierre Lacau, Aylward Blackman, Raymond Faulkner.

Also includes some draft replies from Newberry and letters from Gardiner to Howard Carter relating to the publication of an article.

Also includes page of notes on names titled Sethe and notes on an article on Sebknofru and ‘On Transcriptions’.

A few letters include notes on the back mostly of one or two words.

Note:
MSS 18/1 is also numbered 5
MSS 18/2 is also numbered A.249
MSS 18/3 is also numbered 31
MSS 18/7 is also numbered A.1
MSS 18/8 is also numbered 67
MSS 18/10 is also numbered A.99
MSS 18/13 is also numbered A.302
MSS 18/18 is also numbered 354
MSS 18/19 is also numbered A.238
MSS 18/20 is also numbered A.241
MSS 18/21 is also numbered A.5
MSS 18/22 is also numbered A.295
MSS 18/29 is also numbered 263
MSS 18/31 is also numbered 288
MSS 18/32 is also numbered 253
MSS 18/35 is also numbered A.10
MSS 18/36 is also numbered A.11
MSS 18/37 is also numbered A.22
MSS 18/40 is also numbered 308
MSS 18/46 is also numbered 220
MSS 18/47 is also numbered 1a
MSS 18/48 is also numbered 1
MSS 18/55 is also numbered A.150
MSS 18/56 is also numbered A.137
MSS 18/57 is also numbered 151a
MSS 18/58 is also numbered A.157
MSS 18/59 is also numbered A.138
MSS 18/60 is also numbered A.138
MSS 18/61 is also numbered A.140
MSS 18/62 is also numbered A.141
MSS 18/66 is also numbered 143