Ferdinand (Ferdy) Platt's correspondence relates to two excursions to Egypt, in 1896 and 1907-1908.

• First group: eighteen letters and postcards, sent during Platt's first independent visit to Egypt in early 1896, when he initially travelled with a friend. Dating between 26 January and 19 April, the letters are addressed to Platt's mother. They record meeting Flinders Petrie and other notables.
• Second group: thirty-one letters sent during Platt's second trip to Egypt in 1907-1908, when he accompanied the eighth Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, their relations Lord and Lady Gosford with their daughter Lady Theo, Sir Charles Cradock-Hartopp. Dating between 4 November 1907 and 8 February 1908, they are addressed to Platt's wife, Mabel (May). They record Platt's encounters with Winston Churchill, Alan Gardiner, James Quibell, George Reisner, Archibald Sayce and Arthur Weigall, among others. The letters also mention a meeting with Howard Carter when the latter was still earning a living as an artist, producing paintings for tourists; the letters provide important insights into Carter's life just before he began his partnership with Lord Carnarvon.

Crete. Island of Gavdos:

• watercolour on paper
• loose
• 12.7 x 7.5 cm
• [on watercolour] 'NE by E' (ink note)
• [on watercolour] 'E' (ink note)
• [on watercolour] 'Gozo of Candia 6 miles' (ink note)

118 glass stereoscopic plate negatives. Most show sites in and around

• Cairo, in and around
  • General views of Cairo
  • Street views
  • Tombs of the Caliphs
  • Tombs of the Mamelukes
  • Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan
  • Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Barquq
  • Tomb of Abouseer
  • Mosque of Khat Bey
  • Al-Hakim Mosque
  • Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha
  • The Citadel

• Other sites in Egypt
  • 'Tombs at Thebes'
  • 'Rocks of Abusir', Second Cataract
  • 'Arab village'

• Outside Egypt, mostly Israel and Palestine:
  • Bethlehem
  • Jacob's Well
  • Mount Tabor

Notes, photographs, squeezes, correspondence, and offprints. Contain, amongst others, references to Assyriological, Greek, Cypriot, and Egyptological material. Includes notes made by Petrie which were with Sayce at the time of his death.

Halt whilst boar hunting in the salt marshes near Salhieh (Salhiya):

• watercolour
• mounted
• 35.3 x 25.8 cm
• [on mount] 'Halt whilst Boar shooting. Salt marshes near Salhich.' (ink note)
• [on mount] encircled '3' (pencil note)
• [on verso of watercolour] 'Halt whilst Boar shooting. / Salt marshes near Salhieh. 5 Feb 1843.' (pencil note)

Papers of William Matthew Flinders Petrie including journals covering 38 seasons (1880-1929) and photographs of excavations. The collection also includes secondary material associated with Petrie's journals, photographs of objects in museums, souvenir photographs and photocopies of material held at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London.

Maps, plans and drawings, original and fair copies created by Crawford and Frank Addison for Crawford, O. G. S. 1951. The Fung kingdom of Sennar: with a geographical account of the Middle Nile Region.

• Sennar roll 1:
  • Addison and Crawford drawings for figs. 1-4;
  • Northern Fung region, discussed in Chapter ii, figs. 17, 24;
  • Southern Fung region, discussed in Chapter ii, figs. 8, 14, 16, 21, 28.
• Sennar roll 2:
  • Drawings for figs. 1-8, and part of figs. 10, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 24, 25;
  • Two maps used in the field (1951-1952) for naming sites:
  • — Korgus to Kuddik;
  • — Kuddik to 'Usheir.

(1) Excavation journals for 1899-1901 (working with W. M. F. Petrie) and 1901-1903 (working with G. A. Reisner).
(2) Personal correspondence exchanged between Mace and his wife Winifred during the Winter season 1922-1923, Winifred Mace and her mother during the Winter season 1923-1924, and other correspondence related to the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
(3) Two typewritten articles by Mace on work in Tutankhamun's tomb: "DESPATCH No. 5" (3 pages), and "THE CLOSING OF THE TOMB" (incomplete, first page only + newspaper cutting of The Times article); both submitted to The Times and subsequently published on 31/01/1923 and 28/03/1923.
(4) 39 photographs, most are original Burton images, some of which have been annotated by Howard Carter; they may have been used during the preparation of H. Carter and A. C. Mace, The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen i (1923).
(5) Newspaper cuttings, most from The Times, published between 1922 and 1925.

(y) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - typewritten version (TAA iv.1). Diary for 1922-3 (TAA iv.2).
(z) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - original handwritten version (TAA iv.3).

Three notebooks containing Gell's copies of hieroglyphic inscriptions from objects and publications, also drawings (some coloured) of objects seen by Gell in museums and private collections.

Notebooks, notes, copies of texts, photographs, lecture notes, drafts of articles, and facsimiles.

A small group of Faulkner's documentation.

• Translation of the stela of King Kamose [Kamosi] (Faulkner MSS 1).
• Sections of Faulkner, Raymond O. 1962. A concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian (Faulkner MSS 2).
• Original housing for the group (Faulkner MSS 3).

Corpus of early traveller’s graffiti from selected sites and monuments in Egypt and Sudan, including transcriptions and photographs of graffiti, collated by Roger De Keersmaecker between 1965 and the 2010s, then published by him between 2001 and 2019.

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 manuscript and typescript records on the 'Heretic Family' (Amarna period kings), part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty. This group includes:

• Typewritten genealogical table (folding) for Amenophis III (Amenhotep III), Amenophis IV (Amenhotep IV; Akhenaton; Ikhnaton), Smenkhkare, and Tutankhamun. Accompanied by 5 typewritten pages of accompanying notes, incorporating the comments of Dr Douglas Derry and Carter
• Typewritten table with dates of accession and death for 18th Dynasty kings, excluding Neferneferuaten and Haremhab (Horemheb). - Accompanied by several pages of manuscript notes on regnal years, relevant bibliography, and miscellaneous notes
• Letter to Carter from H. E. Winlock, dated 20-12-1925, regarding a discussion on Tutankhamun's parentage
• Notes on dated monuments of Amenophis IV (Amenhotep IV; Akhenaton; Ikhnaton)
• Letter to Carter from P. E. Newberry, dated 20-12-1931, responding to Carter's enquiry whether Amenophis III (Amenhotep III) had a son named Thutmose, off-print enclosed of Newberry, Percy E. 1928. 'The sons of Tuthmosis IV'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), pp. 82-85 figs pl. xii (OEB 146401).

Three sketches of man drinking water from amphora being held by woman (Classical) and sketch of Egyptian scene with a pharaoh and the god Seth:

• ink and pencil sketches on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 49.16 and Bonomi MSS 49.18-22
• 12.8 x 12.1 cm

View (and study) of the Hypostyle hall in the Temple of Khons at Karnak, on the East Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.232):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 12.8 x 32.3 cm

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'
• '9 Bull Great Court Medinet Haboo'
• '10 Tracing of a soul being weighed Tomb Thebes'
• '11 Beautiful outline Memnonion Zodiac Chart(?)'
• 'Design restoration / restorations' (pencil additions above 11)

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'.

Architectonical fragment (perhaps jamb or pillar) mentioning "the Osiris Nehehniotef, justified" from an unidentified tomb at Saqqara, current location not known (TopBib iii.2.749A), and perhaps related to the stela of Nehehniotef, Dyn. XIX, from a tomb at Saqqara, formerly in Passalacqua collection, now in Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum, 7273 (TopBib iii.2.733):

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Top and Bottom]
• 3.3 x 9.1 cm
• [on mount] '2' (pencil note)

List of hieroglyphic signs with their corresponding phonetic values in English, and some examples:

• ink and pencil text and hieroglyphs on paper
• mounted
• 9.7 x 19.4 cm
• [on mount] 'By Max Weidenback / The Pyramids' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '1' (pencil note)

Mourning women and child behind the [coffin being dragged] from a scene depicting the funeral procession of the deceased in the Hall of Tomb of Neferhotep (TT 49) at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib i2.91.(4).I):

• pencil and watercolor (black and pink) sketch on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Middle and Bottom]
• 15.7 x 12.1 cm
• [on mount] 'Two young women a child / and a grey headed old woman / putting dust on their heads / at the departure of the boat / that carries the mummy of / some relation or benefactor / to the Tomb / Drawn from the wall of a / tomb at Gorna' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Tomb of Nefer Hotep (49)' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on mount] encircled '1' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '2' (pencil note)

Cartouches of Amasis and Sethos I:

• pencil sketches
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Top and Middle]
• 6.3 x 9.9 cm
• [on mount] '2' (pencil note)

Rubbing of a hieroglyphic inscription on an object thought to come from Carthage (not identified) (TopBib vii.367A):

• ink rubbing on tracing paper, mounted on paper
• mounted
• 4 x 16.2 cm (11.2 x 17.6 cm with mount)
• [on rubbing mount] 'This is a rubbing / from some Hieroglyphics / found among the ruins / of Carthage. / Given to me by / Doctor Lee of Aylesbury / 1840' (ink note)
• [on mount] '6' (pencil note)

View of the Pyramid of Snefru at Maidum (TopBib iv.89):

• pencil sketch on paper
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Bottom]
• 5.3 x 5.5 cm
• [on sketch] 'Monday sunrise 8 of October' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Egyptian name in hieroglyphs of Medinet el-Faiyum (Shedet - Crocodilopolis):

• pencil sketch on paper
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Bottom]
• 5.3 x 6.1 cm
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Partial plan with measurements (not identified):

• pencil sketch and ink note on paper
• partially mounted
• 12 x 8.7 cm
• [on sketch] '56 / 13 8' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Kom al (?) Faioum' (ink note)
• [on mount] '5' (pencil note)

Cartouches of Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti and Akhenaten on a block, probably basalt, originally from Amarna but found at el-Ashmunein, formerly in J. Traill's collection and current location not known:

• pencil sketches and ink notes on paper
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Top and Middle]
• 6.3 x 9.9 cm
• [on sketches] 'Cairo' (ink note)
• [on sketches] 'Mr Traill's fragment' (ink note)
• [on mount] '2' (pencil note)

Note:

• pencil text on paper
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Middle]
• 5.4 x 5.5 cm
• [text] '1843 / Cairo to Wady Halfa / and back in 44 days / journey completed by the / end of September / Nº/ 24 Edinboro or Quarterly account of / Eastern Africa' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Cartouches of Amasis:

• pencil sketches on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Middle and Bottom]
• 5.4 x 6.2 cm
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Egyptian sistrum and floral motifs:

• pencil sketches on paper
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Middle]
• 5.4 x 5.5 cm
• [on sketches] 'Job before 28 days' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Note from the voyage to France:

• pencil text on paper
• mounted
• 4.8 x 19.5 cm
• [text] 'Cassot island near / and belonging to / Crete (Candia) in this / island about the begin[nin]g / of the Greek war a ship / belonging to the french / ship conveying arms / which was taken by / pirates and conveyed / to this island who after / taking the contents / permitted the ship to / go. Soon after this / event came to the / island a large french vessel / of war and a smaller / one to demand the / restitution of the / arms which was / given up The captain / of the larger vessel / finding two (?) / slaves one tall the / other short bought / them of the master / The Tall slave is the / sister of a man / in the service of / Husseyn son of H II M A called / Krasheed'
• [on mount] 'This note written on board a Steemer / belonging to Muhammad Ali at Marseilles / at the request of the brother of the person to be / enquired for on my arrival in Paris / The brother a slave that accompanied / the son of M Ali on the voyage from Egypt / to France His office was to wait on the / young prince and to rub his feet' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '4' (pencil note)