Folder titled 'Fluted columns' containing research material on architectural features including the lotus pattern and fluted columns.

Includes:
-Letter from Eiddan Edwards referring to an article by him on early architectural features, 15 January 1949.
-Tracings, cuttings and drawings of lotus patterns
-Drawings of examples of floral headdresses
-Drawings of examples of column heads
-Notes on columns
-Notes on silphium and silphium columns

Also includes draft letter to Sir Edward Salisbury which refers to a short paper Newberry is writing up on the origin of the fluted columns of Egypt and Greece.

This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Special Subjects 2'.

Folder titled 'Architecture. Building' containing notes, tracings and drawings relating to architecture includings notes on tents and primitive Egyptian houses, construction of buildings and palaces, building methods and materials, building workers, styles of architecture e.g. columns and recessed brickwork.

Also includes photographs of Morrocan architecture.

There is also a paper folder attached to this folder containing a couple of pages of notes on columns.

This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Special Subjects 2'.

Correspondence from Anthony John Arkell arranging a visit to see Newberry and relating to research including on trees, plants, predynastic period and the Sudan.

Correspondence from/to Arkell, Anthony John (1898-1980).

7 letters from Arkell, 1 carbon copy of a letter by Černý to Arkell.

• consulting Černý for readings of texts
• news from Arkell's excavations in the Sudan
• request for information from Černý concerning University College students and their previous archaeological education

1 letter. Rev. Canon S. C. Armour is the sender.

Correspondence from Reverend Samuel Crawford Armour (1839-1929) including relating to Newberry's successor to the chair of Egyptology and an Egyptian Exhibition Newberry invited Armour to.

Note:
MSS 3/30 is also numbered A.253

Invitation from Helen S. Armstrong to lunch.

Correspondence from/to Armstrong, John.

Correspondence from W. E. Armstrong relating to a talk at the Anthropological Club, Cambridge.

Note:
MSS 3/34 is also numbered 20a
NSS 3/35 is also numbered 20

Annotated typescript of an article (unpublished) on the Egyptian influence on archaic Greek art with notes from Diodorus Siculus, Egyptian Artists (1653), Les Apollons Archaiques (1909) by Waldemar Deonna and various other publications.

Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript drafts, unpublished articles and lectures.

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

Correspondence from/to Artzi, Pinhas (1923-2007).

1 letter from el-Ashiry.
Regarding Černý's participation in the CEDAE missions.

1 letter from Ashmole.
Social contact.

Ashmolean demotic stela 1962.500 (Ptolemy (cartouche blank) offers field to 4 divinities), transcription of text.

Correspondence from Arthur Leigh Bolland Ashton (Secretary of the International Congress of the History of Art) relating to an exhibition of textiles by Newberry; the purchase of Egyptian items; and Ashton filling a lectureship for a year.

Correspondence from Iskander Assad, an Egyptian student, including arranging to meet Newberry in London and asking for help on his appointment to Keeper of the Ancient Egyptian Department of the Agricultural Museum, Cairo.

Note:
MSS 26/3 is also numbered A.181

Correspondence from/to Aston, L. J.

Letter from John Jacob Astor arranging a meeting and thanking Newberry for proposing Astor as a Vice-President of the Egypt Exploration Society.

Note:
This letter is also numbered 21

Letter from Mary Atkinson asking Newberry to give a friend, Brian Melland, an introduction at Tel el Amarna, and a following letter thanking him for his help.

Letter from J. Aubin relating to Newberry becoming a member of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften [in German].

Letter from Aubriot.
Aubriot was the French geodesy specialist working with the Theban graffiti project.

Howard Carter's drafts of his autobiography were intended for publication, but not completed or published. Carter referred to these drafts as "autobiographical sketches", and the manuscripts and typescripts were most likely composed in the 1930s.

• Earlier annotated manuscript
  • 6 notebooks
  • 219 pages
  • Section/chapter headings within this group include:
    • Sketch I. Introductory
    • Sketch II. An Account of Myself
    • Sketch III. Thebes
    • Sketch IV. The Tomb of the Horse
    • Sketch V. Summer life and a Tale from the Coffee hearth
    • Sketch VI. Three Milk White Camels
    • Sketch VII. A Fortuitous Discovery
    • Sketch VIII. The Valley and the Royal Tomb
    • Sketch IX. Tomb-Robberies and the Fate of the Royal Mummies
    • Sketch XI. The Finding of the tomb of Amenophis I
• Later annotated typescript
  • 8 folders
  • 236 pages
  • Section/chapter headings within this group include:
    • Autobiographical preface
    • The Excavator and his Task
    • The Ancient Egyptian Dwelling, Tomb and Temple
    • Ancient Egyptian Funerary Equipment
    • Sketch of Thebes
    • The Theban Necropolis
    • The Valley of the Tombs of the Kings
    • A History of the Theban Royal Mummies Decadence and Destiny I-IX
    • El-Bab El-Hosân 'The Tomb of the Horse'
    • Summer life in Egypt
    • The Rat and the Snake
    • A Fortuitous Discovery [The discovery of Queen Hatshepsut's tomb]
    • Three Milk White Camels
    • The Finding of the Tomb of Amenophis the First
    • The Cemetery of the Queens'

Correspondence from Mohammed Aswad including arranging to visit Newberry and regarding a student wishing to study at the University of Oxford.

Letter from Christabel Aylmer (Wife of Guy Aylmer) thanking Newberry for his kindness during a visit.

Letter from Guy Aylmer (Husband to Christabel Aylmer) to Newberry regarding sending him some samples of wood from Sudan.

Note:
MSS 3/48 is also numbered A 104
MSS 3/49 is also numbered A.53

Letter from Edward Russell Ayrton (1882-1914) arranging to stay with Newberry.

Correspondence from Mohammed Ab Del Aziz, a student of Newberry's, relating to visiting Newberry.