110 letters from Posener, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Posener.
2 letters from Posener to Marie Černý.
Research:

• renewal of the Deir el-Medina ostraca project after the Second World War (WWII)
• Posener's publication plans, work on Kemit (later published as Posener, G., Catalogue des ostraca hiératiques littéraires de Deir el Médineh ii (Nos 1109 à 1167), (1951) & (1991) (OEB 3065))
• Posener's research on execration figures, literary ostraca, translations of various texts
• Černý's research on supposed consanguineous marriages in Egypt
• book exchange and mutual help in obtaining rare volumes in Britain, Egypt and France
  Personal and family matters
• some remarks on the situation in Czechoslovakia after the communist coup on 25 February 1948
  After Černý's death, Marie Černý consulted options for Černý's posthumous publications with Posener, especially the Late Egyptian grammar and the involvement of S. Groll in the grammar project.

13 letters from Roeder, 8 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Roeder.
1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to a pharmaceutical company on behalf of Roeder's pupil Mrs Berger.

• the situation of German Egyptology after the Second World War (WWII)
• exchange of publications established despite difficulties
• Roeder's research on statuary
• Černý saved food from his own rations in the UK and sent it to Roeder

1 letter from Roveri.

• travels to Egypt
• job applications

27 letters from Sauneron to Černý.
2 letters from Sauneron to Marie Černý, 1 letter (with multiple drafts) from Marie Černý to Sauneron.
Professional and personal matters:

• Sauneron's research and news of research-based travelling
• Egyptian philology, palaeography
• studies in hieratic
• book exchange and purchases
• occasional news of family
  Marie Černý consulting Sauneron regarding posthumous publications of J. Černý, as well as the use of Černý's notebooks.

6 letters from Säve-Söderbergh.
Professional and personal matters:

• a stela in Uppsala (see Černý MSS 2.277)
• Nubian graffiti and other monuments
• visits to the UK by Säve-Söderbergh

6 letters from Scamuzzi, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Scamuzzi.

• objects in the Museo Egizio, Turin
• Černý's planned visits
• exchange of publications

6 letters from Scott, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Scott.

• Deir el-Medîna material in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, finds relating to the workman Khabekhnet and his family (Thebes, TT 2, TopBib i2.6-9)
• Third Intermediate Period material
• Scott's study trips to Europe
• personal matters

2 letters from W. S. Smith, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to W. S. Smith.
Professional as well as personal matters:

• Old Kingdom archaeology - Queen Meresankh, attribution of pyramids at Dahshur and Maidum
• ostraca research, Černý asking for a photograph of an ostracon in Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 11.1498

13 letters from Théodoridès, 1 copy of a letter from Černý to Théodoridès.
Professional and personal matters:

• book exchange
• Egyptian measures of capacity
• ostracon BM 5634
• libation formulae
• P. Gurob II, O. Chicago 12.073
• graffiti in the Step pyramid complex (TopBib iii2.412 and libation formulae
• ostracon Deir el-Medîna 225
• Théodoridès' travels to the United Kingdom
• meetings
• personal matters
• Théodoridès comment on the Soviet/Warsaw pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968

7 letters from Till, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Till, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Jean Tudor-Pole (secretary) to Till, sent in Černý's absence.

• Egyptian books, written culture, Coptic and Coptic etymologies
• exchange of news on the work on grammars, see Till, W. C., Koptische Grammatik (Saïdischer Dialekt) mit Bibliographie, Lesestücken und Wörterverzeichnissen (1955) (OEB 49O12); and Černý, J. and Groll, S. I., A Late Egyptian Grammar (1975) (OEB 18215) published posthumously
• personal matters
• health

17 letters from Vandier.
Professional and private matters:

• exchange of publications, publication plans of both researchers
• membership of academic societies in the UK and France
• Egyptian measure itrw
• personal matters
• visits
• meetings

1 letter from Wilson, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Wilson.
Professional and personal matters:

• Černý's visit to Chicago in 1955
• inscriptions in the temple of Amada, TopBib vii.73

18 letters from Yoyotte.
Professional and personal matters:

• exchange of offprints and publications
• QV 53 publication by Yoyotte, see Yoyotte, J., 'The Tomb of a Prince Ramesses in the Valley of the Queens (No. 53)', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 44 (1958), 26-30 (OEB 6811)
• Yoyotte's visits to the UK
• situation of IFAO after the Suez crisis
• personal matters

• Prosopographical notes. General
• Prosopographical notes. To the Cambridge Ancient History chapter
• Vocabulary of the Great Inscription of Merneptah
• Egyptian words in other languages
• Vocabulary from various sources
• Lexicographical slips
• Weights and measures

• Vocabulary, some from Černý, Ostraca hiératiques (Cat. Caire) (OEB 136749).
• Palaeography of hieratic signs from Abusir.
• Texts from mummy wrappings. See Daressy 'Les cercueils des prètres d'Ammon (deuxième trouvaille de Deir el-Bahari)', in ASAE 8 (1907), 3-38 (OEB 137609).
• Index of references to Černý in publications.

5 tracings; 4 in pencil, 1 inked.
Five tracings of hieratic texts.

• Černý MSS 6.25A, written in large careful hieratic signs
• Černý MSS 6.26, very fragmentary, could also be an ostracon fragment.
  Not identified. No provenance indicated.

9 copies of texts and transcriptions, handwritten.
Mostly transcriptions of Middle Kingdom graffiti (rock inscriptions), from Hieroglyph Hill, Abd el-Qadir, West Bank, Nubia. See TopBib vii.140.

A series of proofs of plates for graffiti nos. 1424-2067, incomplete, printed.
Including original cover in which the plates were stored, with a handwritten caption by Anna Allott.

38 groups of records and notes on graffiti, including tracings, transcriptions and maps.
Notes and indexes mainly for Theban graffiti and the Nubian graffiti.
A set of proofs for a part of Graffiti de la montagne thébaine.
The Theban material largely covers work on the Theban mountain in the 1960s and includes preparation of graffiti lists for publication.
There are also some graffiti Černý consulted for A. J. Arkell in the late 1940s/early 1950s.

Brief notes on the colours of hieroglyphs in tombs.

Comparison of signs from various papyri and a numbered list of new signs.

Two notebooks of L.-A. Christophe , Les équipes de Deir el Médineh:

• Notebook I: Ramesses III - An XXIV - An XXXI.
• Notebook II: Ramesses IV - An I - III.

Transcriptions. Ostraca.

• Leiden, Rijksmuseum
• Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
• Nash collection
• Varille collection

The majority of the notebooks are A5 or similar. Most of the content is handwritten unless specified otherwise.
Many of the notebooks contain transcriptions of hieratic texts from ostraca, papyri and other objects. Also recorded are transcriptions of graffiti (hieratic and hieroglyphic) and hieroglyphic texts from monuments.
Texts were often copied in situ at sites or in museums and were continually collated. Transcriptions were also made using photographs and publications as source material.
Some notebooks are thematic focusing on economic and social history issues. These subjects include Egyptian administration (nomes), prices, topography (e.g. Deir el-Medîna), etc.
Notebooks compiled from material consulted in Egyptian collections, mostly in European countries and Egypt. Černý visited museums with major collections of hieratic material from Deir el-Medîna, most notably, Museo Egizio, Turin; British Museum, London; [Ägyptisches] Museum, Berlin; and Rijksmuseum, Leiden.
Černý compiled a series of slip-indexes for the transcriptions (slip-indexes, see Černý MSS 23 to 46).

The group includes letter from Petrie to Griffith on verso.