Letter from Amelia Edwards forwarded with Petrie's journal to next recipient requesting confidentiality regarding contents of the journal.

Correspondence exchanged between Charles Hercules Read and W. M. F. Petrie in 1907, two letters and one draft letter.

• C. H. Read to Petrie, 27-03-1907, 2 pages, comparing the scale of excavations in Egypt undertaken by the Germans and Americans and that the British were falling behind.
• Petrie to C. H. Read, not dated but presumably 1907, 3 pages, a draft of the reply in response to Read's letter of 27-03-1907, refutes Read's statement, and to the contrary, the British were in fact 'leading the way', describes his excavations in the Palace of Apries at Memphis, has funding for excavating in Egypt for the next 5 to 10 years, and the British Society of Antiquaries need to continue its support of British excavations.
• Petrie to C. H. Read, 27-05-1909, 1 page, the Hilton Price collection sale at Sotheby's.

Three groups of material relating to the Petrie Journals.

• Original archive wrappings for Journals, as received, with notes and comments.
• Ann Petrie note dated November 1969 and a photocopy of a typewritten list of W. M. F. Petrie's publications.
• Photocopy of letter from Rachael Sparks, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, 07-03-2004, describing W. M. F. Petrie MSS in other repositories.

Notebook containing legends copied by Jaroslav Černý on 19-21 July 1954 from album of photographs taken by W.M. Flinders Petrie of Egyptian objects in the Museums of Bologna, Florence and Turin in April 1893.

Note: Although these legends correspond with the album Petrie MSS 3.1 'Photographs of Egyptian Objects in the Museums of Bologna, Florence and Turin', they are not included in it. It is not known whether the photographs were rehoused or if there is a duplicate album with legends seen by Černý held elsewhere.

Modern negatives created from Petrie's original nitrate negatives which were then deaccessioned.

These photographs are the same as in the album of photographs from Italian museums (Petrie MSS 3.1), however, there is not a negative for every print. The following negatives are missing: 29, 36, 37, 81, 90, 98, 185, 213, 222, 226, 233, 234, 243, 274, 321, 352, 356, 368, 369, 413, 472 and 532.

Mounted prints of Petrie's photographs of Egyptian objects in the Museums of Bologna, Florence and Turin with typed captions. Photographs have been organised first by site and then by museum. The photograph numbers correlate with the album (Petrie MSS 3.1), legends copied by Černý (Petrie MSS 3.2) and negatives (Petrie MSS 3.3).

Album containing photographs of Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom and Late Period antiquities and monuments, as well as some Ptolemaic, Roman, Coptic and Arab.

Album containing photographs of modern Egypt.

Album containing photographs of Egypt by Flinders Petrie.

Notebook 8, recording details of excavation at Ballas, tomb groups Q31a, Q32 and Q73-Q99, compiled by J. E. Quibell on behalf of Petrie. Photocopies of notebook cover and 47 notebook pages.

Notebook 11, recording details of excavation at Ballas, including tomb groups Q5 to Q36, compiled by J. E. Quibell on behalf of Petrie. Photocopies of notebook cover and 34 notebook pages.

Notebook 70, recording details of excavation at Naqada, compiled by H. W. Price on behalf of Petrie.
Photocopies of notebook cover and 117 notebook pages.

Notebook 72, recording details of excavation at Naqada, compiled by Petrie and others.
Photocopies of 122 notebook pages.

Typewritten catalogue for sections of the Petrie MSS, most of which relates to photographs. Superceded by online Petrie catalogue.

• Journal letters.
• November 7, 1883, through to July 7, 1884.
• Handwritten.
• In early December 1883, Petrie, accompanied by his friends Prof. and Mrs Sheldon Amos, charters a dahabiyeh from Cairo, travelling through the Wadi Tumilat to Ismailia, Petrie prospects sites along the way including the site for Petrie's next season which is later identified by him as Naucratis. In February 1884, Petrie begins his first large-scale excavations at Tanis which continue into June.
• Main site: Tanis (San el-Hagar).

• Journal letters.
• Part 1, W. M. Flinders Petrie journal, November 29, 1898, to March 20, 1899.
• Part 2, Hilda Petrie journal, November 14, 1898, to March 1, 1899.
• Part 3, Hilda Petrie diary “1898-9 / SEMAINEH & HOW.”, December 6, 1898, to January 25, 1899. Camping trip (El Ga’ara, El Ghabat and Nawahed), March 2-5, 1899. Pages 143-70 are loose pages and the order is uncertain.
• All handwritten.
• Sites: Abadiya, Hu (Diospolis Parva).

• Journal letters.
• November 6, 1890, to June 15, 1891.
• Handwritten.
• Petrie at Maidum for the whole season excavating and recording the tombs, as well as surveying the pyramid. Petrie assisted by G. W. Fraser and F. J. Bliss. In April 1891, Petrie travels to Greece to visit Ernest Gardner, Director of the British School at Athens, where Petrie is able to confirm that the “Aegean” finds from Gurob were manufactured in Mycenae then exported to Egypt.
• Sites: Maidum (Meydum; Medum).
• Includes several small watercolours of objects.

Photocopy of a typewritten transcript of Petrie's journal for 1880-1, with a photocopy of the typewritten index.

Photocopied extracts from W. M. F. Petrie journal entry for 21-06-1883, in which Petrie describes Egyptian objects on display in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Album with 30 photographs of excavations at El-Kab between December 1897 and April 1898, led by James Edward Quibell, assisted by his sister Kate Quibell and Annie A. Pirie (later Quibell).

Microfiche copies of all of W. M. F. Petrie's excavation notebooks and tomb cards in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University of Oxford.