Manuscript letter from R. Bethell, dated 27 May 1921, to Howard Carter, regarding Carter's proposed article on glass (see Carter MSS vi.5.3), part of Carter's records on glass.

Howard Carter's notebook, manuscript notes on glass and other subjects. The notebook forms part of Carter's records on glass.
Includes:

• Heading on the first page, "Notes on glass"
• 2 loose pages with notes on two magical figures, almost certainly from Tutankhamun's tomb
• Notes on general glass-making techniques and decoration, extracted from publications
• Notes on 'Red Jungle Fowl'
• Draft of Carter, Howard 1923. 'An ostracon depicting a red jungle-fowl (the earliest known drawing of the domestic cock)'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 9 (1/2), 1-4 (OEB 136396)
• Manuscript draft of a proposed article on glass, for the typescript of this article see Carter MSS vi.5.3

Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript drafts, unpublished articles and lectures.

An article, annotated by Carter, titled 'Egypt Calls' by Sir Evelyn Wrench and published in The Spectator, 6 September 1935, page 370, in which Wrench mentions his encounter with Howard Carter at Luxor.

Howard Carter's manuscript draft(s) for a publication or lecture, or perhaps for his intended autobiography.
The draft contains the following headings:

• The District now known as Medinet Habou
• Notes Episodes to introduce [perhaps related to autobiography?]
• Luxor
• Ramesseum
• The temple of Qurna

Howard Carter's annotated typescript, the draft for an unpublished article on art during the reign of Tutankhamun, with references to objects found in all four rooms of the king's tomb, including:

• Throne (Carter object 91)
• Small gold shrine (Carter object 108)
• Decorated casket or box (Carter object 540 and 551)
• Stick(s) with a figure of the king (Carter objects 235a and 235b)
• Painted box (Carter object 21)
• Statues of the canopic goddesses (Carter object 266)
• Statue(s) of the king on a leopard (Carter objects 289a and 289b)
• Ka statues (sentinel or guardian statues) (Carter objects 22 and 29)
• Mask (Carter 256a)

Howard Carter's annotated draft typescript, for an article titled 'Notes. Egyptian Art - Origin, History, Intention and Interpretation', not published and no mention of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Carter numbered most of the pages: "1" to "29"
• The typescript contains the following headings:
  • [title page] Notes. Egyptian Art - Origin, History, Intention and Interpretation
  • Introductory
  • Origin
  • Generation
  • Deterioration
  • History
  • The Art of the Middle Kingdom, 2160 - 1780 B.C.
  • The Art of the New Empire, First and Second Period - 1580-1350-1150 B.C.
  • Intention
  • Interpretation. Cause of certain effects in delineation
  • Renaissance

Press cuttings and miscellaneous notes.

Press cuttings collected by Howard Carter, some mentioning Carter's archaeological work, including Tutankhamun, and Carter manuscript note from original housing.

• Carter MSS vi.7.1.1
  • The Times Educational Supplement
  • 6 July 1929
  • Pages 307-8
  • 'Side Windows on history' (from a correspondent)
  • Mentions Carter
• Carter MSS vi.7.1.2
  • Liverpool Post
  • 20 June 1929
  • 'A cosmetic 3,000 year old'
  • Cosmetic specimen from Tutankhamun's tomb (see following)
• Carter MSS vi.7.1.3
  • Daily Chronicle
  • 20 June 1929
  • 'Cosmetic from Luxor Tomb. | Shown to women in London. | After 3,300 years.'
  • Cosmetic specimen from Tutankhamun's tomb, analysed by Mr A. Chaston Chapman and Dr H. J. Plenderleith (see preceding)
• Carter MSS vi.7.1.4
  • Morning Post
  • 8 January 1929
  • 'The King's Epiphany gifts
  • Not obviously related to Egypt or Carter
• Carter MSS vi.7.1.5
  • The Times (?)
  • Summer 1930
  • 'The Royal Academy | I.—Pictures and the public | A varied exhibition (By our Art Critic)'
  • Not obviously related to Egypt or Carter

Two pages of Howard Carter's manuscript notes on Osiris and 'The wish for an Osiride burial and the retention of every royal prerogative'.

Howard Carter's notebook, containing 118 pages, manuscript notes on hieroglyphic inscriptions, some accompanied by drawings, copied primarily from Lacau, Pierre 1904-1906: Sarcophages antérieurs au Nouvel Empire (OEB 142822), as well as other publications.

Howard Carter's manuscript corrections for the draft or proofs of Carnarvon, Earl of and Howard Carter (eds) 1912. Five years' explorations at Thebes: a record of work done 1907-1911 (OEB 136376).

Howard Carter's artworks, all feature ancient Egyptian or Egypt-related subjects:

• an album of watercolours of birds and animals
• a watercolour painting of a Theban landscape
• a pencil sketch drawing of columns in the Luxor temple

Howard Carter's album of watercolours:

• Containing 16 pages with 30 watercolour illustrations
• Birds and animals and their hieroglyphic equivalents
• Full catalogue with descriptions for each watercolour, see online publication weblinks below

Howard Carter's watercolour of a 'Theban landscape with figures and tent'.

Howard Carter's pencil sketch of some of the columns in the processional colonnade in Luxor Temple, with columns from a Coptic(?) building in the foreground.

Miscellaneous objects owned by and related to Howard Carter.

Notes, papers, correspondence, etc., on prehistoric Faiyûm.

(for proposed second volume of Coptic and Greek Texts relating to the Hermopolite Monastery of Apa Apollo)
Notes, transcriptions, translations, photographs and photocopies of papyri, and correspondence, including:
Photographs, British Library, ref. Pap/653 A & B verso and recto.
Annotated photocopies relating to P. Belastingmuseum Rotterdam 94, P. Lond. V, P. Yale 1756, P. Vatic. Aphrod. 13, P. Graff II, and poll tax receipts.
Ex-Roca Puig Apollo text, correspondence.
Descriptions of poll tax receipts in draft for publication.
Photograph and notes, Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, F.1948/3.8.
Photographs, Christie’s V138 534/‘13’B; Christie’s ‘22’/BM EA 75322; Christie’s ‘20’, ‘25’, ‘11’, ‘14’ ‘17’, ‘27’.
Photographs (b&w) of Österreichische Nationalbibliothek collection: recto and verso of K 21.120; K 11.413; K 21.123; K 21.121.
Photographs (b&w) - P. Mon. Apollo II: unpublished Lansing BM EA papyri (probably belong in this file).
Draft chapter on tax demands.
Corrigenda to P. Mon. Apollo I & II; correspondence.
Lille papyri, correspondence.
Bawit photocopies and correspondence.
Schøyen Collection, correspondence and colour scans of MS 89/5.
Ede 3087A-C, printouts of b&w scans, photographs and notes.
Pct YBR nos. 4996, 4997, 4998, 5001, 5002, 3553, transcriptions and notes.
Coptic Room in the Louvre, correspondence.
Correspondence on tithes and an annotated article on Bawit texts with some notes.

P. Louvre Copt. (Bawit) - material for projected edition.
Photographs (b&w) of Bawit papyri in the Louvre.
Notes, transcriptions, translations, photocopies of papyri and related correspondence.
Draft chapter of unpublished work.
Notes on cemeteries of Saqqara and Bawit, photocopied articles on Coptic mortuary stelae, photographs and slides of inscriptions from the church at Bawit and related correspondence.
Correspondence on unedited Bawit inscriptions.
Annotated copy of ‘The evil eye in late antiquity, healers, amulet dealers and amulet makers’.

Material for projected edition by Sarah Clackson and Anne Boud’hors.
Draft annotated chapters of projected publication with copies of illustrations.
Louvain fragments - notes, transcriptions, b&w and colour scans and a photograph.
Downloaded information on the Louvain collections.
Annotated list of papyrus studies in 1996-97 (in French).
Pages 13-17 of a draft of Art versus archives conference paper, headed ‘Monastery administration’.
KU Leuven Library MSS. Notes by Prof. Vergote, with new inventory numbers by Sarah Clackson.
Leuven Bawit Papyri. Amalgamation of Anne Boud’hors’s individual text files with annotations by Sarah Clackson. Includes floppy disc labelled ‘Papyrus Louvain’ by Anne Boud’hors.
Photographs (b&w) of Bawit papyri, Nos. AB 1 - 57, with notes by Anne Boud’hors.
Notes, annotated photocopies, correspondence including Tomasz Markiewicz’s draft article ‘P. Duke Inv. 469: Fragment of a Coptic contract’, with comments by Sarah Clackson.

Material for projected book on It is our father who writes: Orders from the Archimandrite’s office at the Monastery of Apollo at Bawit.
Manuscript with photocopies of illustrations, correspondence concerning papyrus Jonathan Byrd 36.2 and other papyri, and annotated photocopied articles.

Colour and b&w photos of Coptic papyri in the Ismailia Museum, Egypt (some by Gabra, others, apparently, by Sarah Clackson).
Transcription and translation of very fragmentary papyrus No. 1143.
Correspondence; notes; transcriptions and translations of, and comments on, selected papyri in Ismailia.
Notes on Bawit papyri.
Notes on excavations at Bawit and annotated photocopied articles.
Annotated photocopied articles on Apollo of Bawit/Titkooh.
‘Secondary literature: monasteries’ - annotated photocopied articles.
MIFAO indices of Bawit papyri by Anne Boud’hors and R. G. Coquin, and a photocopied article on the conservation of the papyri.
Photocopied annotated article on the ‘Apollo of the Monastery of Isaac’ by H. Quecke, 1983.

Correspondence regarding thesis, proposed publication, and the acquisition of material.
Sample of the proposed publication.
B&w photographs and printouts of scans for the publication.

Much of this material seems to be later than Sarah Clackson’s dissertation, but probably predates her revision of it into a book.
Maps; photocopies of papyri; notes; photocopied annotated articles; thesis abstract.
Monastery sites: photocopied annotated articles.
Tithes: annotated photocopied articles and notes.
Formula: notes.
Annotated photocopied articles; notes; correspondence.