1 photograph, positive print, annotated on the back. Photograph of a hieratic graffito of year 50 (probably of Ramesses II) of the scribe Ptahemwia and father Yupa, concerning their visit to Pyramid of Sahure and paying homage to the goddess Sekhmet. Graffito from room II (Second Portico) in the mastaba-tomb of Ptahshepses, Middle of Dyn. V, at Abusir. See TopBib iii2.342(8) and (9).
1 inked tracing of 3 lines of a hieratic graffito, from the house of Amennakht (C.IV), Dyn. XX, at Deir el-Medina (see TopBib i2.702). Tracing made by Michel Malinine.
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.
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.
Correspondence from William Henry Goodyear (1846-1923) including relating to the lotus and species of nymphaea and presenting a paper at the Oriental Congress.
Gold. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Carter's manuscript, eight pages, 'Notes upon the remarkable rose-coloured gold employed in jewellery and other ornaments of the Theban Egyptian New Empire' etc., including:
(i) Copy of Alfred Lucas' account in Carter, Howard, The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen ii (1927), pp. 172 ff;
(ii) Copy of Dr Alexander Scott's notes on rose gold;
(iii) Copy of the jeweller's J. R. Ogden typewritten analysis of one sequin;
(iv) Carter's summing up of the evidence.
Letters addressed to Howard Carter from:
(i) Dr Alexander Scott, May (typewritten, with manuscript draft of Carter's reply), June (manuscript), and August 1933 (manuscript), regarding gold in the tomb;
(ii) The jewellers J. R. Ogden concerning gold, with their analysis, typewritten;
(iii) W. F. Hume, December 1930, typewritten, on his publication about gold in ancient Egypt;
(iv) Copy of letter from Howard Carter to W. F. Hume, May 1933, on rose gold;
(v) Alfred Lucas to Howard Carter, November 1933, manuscript, on rose gold.
(vi) Carter's draft/copy manuscript letter addressed to A. Lucas, 15 May 1933.
Newspaper cutting from Illustrated London News, April 1934, with articles by E. T. Lewis and W. T. Blackband on 'Rediscovery of the lost Etruscan art of granulation'. The following items were also filed by Carter in this group:
Printed calling card: Mr Alfred Dobrée, Le Fainel, St Martins, Guernsey. Savile Club.
Manuscript note with contact details for Dr [Cecil H.] Desch. F.R.S. National Physical Laboratory, Teddington', on Savile Club headed notepaper.
7 letters from Godron 1 carbon copy of a letter from (Helen Murray?, Černý's colleague) written on behalf of Černý's to Godron 1 copy of a letter to Godron, presumably forwarded to Černý Godron's studies in early dynastic material, Palermo stone, collections at Mariemont, and Godron's Coptic studies; Godron's visits to the United Kingdom.