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Drower, Margaret (Peggy) - correspondence

8 letters from M. Drower, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to M. Drower.
Egypt Exploration Society (EES) administration, meetings and expeditions, as well as publications, e.g. Calverley, A. M. and Broome, M. F., The Temple of King Sethos I at Abydos, The Second Hypostyle Hall iv (1958) (OEB 8067).

Edel, Elmar - correspondence

43 letters from Edel, 7 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Edel.

  • philology
  • publications
  • CEDAE expeditions
  • etymologies, including Coptic
  • the Nubian campaign - texts from Amara and Abu Simbel
  • Aswan fieldwork of Edel, hieratic texts on vessels from Aswan
  • book exchange
  • communication between European and Egyptian Egyptologists

Edgerton, William Franklin - correspondence

3 letters from Edgerton, 1 carbon copy of a letter and one pencil draft of another letter from Černý to Edgerton.
Černý's visit to Chicago in early 1955, assessment of Miss Catherine E. Morton.

Edwards, Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen - correspondence

55 letters from Edwards to Černý.
11 letters to Marie Černý from Edwards, 2 draft letters from M. Černý to Edwards.
Professional as well as personal matters. Philology, publication of Abusir papyri, objects from the British Museum collections, Nubian campaigns; academic examinations and positions, including Černý's transfer from London to Oxford; family matters.
Particular issues include:

  • purchases of publications in Cairo
  • following Černý's death, Edwards corresponded with Marie Černý concerning the transfer of Černý's library to Prague
  • T. G. H. James to be recommended as The Lady Wallis Budge Fellow
  • the Palmer Holland squeezes material
  • papyri at Kingston Lacy
  • Coptic etymologies
  • Edwards' candidature for the British Academy, supported by Černý
  • stela of Rudjahau, in London, British Museum, EA 159, TopBib v.95-6

Fairman, Herbert Walter - correspondence

66 letters from Fairman, 16 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Fairman.
Pprofessional and personal matters, book purchases and exchange, books being lent, often to Fairman or Liverpool library.
Particular topics: - Černý asked to obtain books on some of his international travels, e.g. books from the IFAO during his Egypt sojourns.

  • Objects in Manchester Museum,1759 and 4588
  • Nubian sites, Amara (West) (TopBib vii.159?, 1961), Abu Simbel
  • Exchange of opinions on papers by E. Edel, B. Grdseloff and others
  • Černý invited to be an external examiner for Liverpool, exchange of evaluations of individual students, notably K. Kitchen. J. Ruffle, M. A. M. Asfour.
  • Administration of the Egypt Exploration Society (EES)
  • Nubian campaign and UNESCO
  • Coptic etymology, reading of Ptolemaic texts
  • Personal and family matters

Fecht, G. - correspondence

3 letters from Fecht, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Fecht.
Professional matters, book exchange, and Černý's contribution for Firchow, O. (ed.), Ägyptologische Studien 29 (1955) (OEB 158830).

Firchow, Otto - correspondence

2 letters from Firchow, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Firchow.
Černý's participation in Festschrift Grapow, see Firchow, O. (ed.), Ägyptologische Studien (1955) (OEB 158830).

Fraser - correspondence

3 letters from Fraser.
Classical authors, Diodorus, Egyptological publications, and a reference to B. Grdseloff's research.

Gadd, Cyril John - correspondence

4 letters from Gadd, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Gadd
Černý's work on oracles; I. E. S. Edwards' candidature to the British Academy, the position of Oriental Studies in the British Academy.

Garnot, Jean Sainte Fare - correspondence

37 letters from Sainte-Fare Garnot, 3 carbon copies and 1 draft of letters from Černý to Sainte-Fare Garnot.
Professional as well as personal matters:

  • Coptic etymologies, including publication, Černý, J., 'Some Coptic etymologies III', in Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 57 (1958), 203-13 (OEB 6080).
  • ostraca
  • reading of texts
  • Deir el-Medîna
  • impact of the Suez crisis and the aftermath, 1956-7
  • personal meetings, visits, family news

Gerster, Georg - correspondence

1 letter from Gerster, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Gerster.
Photographs of Protosinaitic inscriptions; Gerster's plans to prepare a book on Nubia; the Aswan dam project.

Glanville, Stephen R. - correspondence

16 letters from Glanville, 1 copy of a letter from Černý to Glanville.
1 copy of a letter from Glanville to A. J. Arkell, copy sent to Černý.
1 memorandum of agreement between Černý and the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press.
1 letter from Glanville to Jean Tudor-Pole (Černý’s secretary).
1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Carl Winter, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Professional and personal matters:

  • Černý’s arrival in the UK in 1946
  • Černý’s external examinership for Cambridge
  • A. J. Arkell's situation
  • publication of the rock-tombs at Meir, see Blackman, A. M. and Apted, M. R. The Rock tombs of Meir, v (1954) (OEB 1684) and vi (1954) (OEB 1685)
  • Černý’s communications with the Fitzwilliam Museum concerning photographs for Georges Nagel
  • furthering Černý’s participation in the Cambridge Ancient History volumes
  • the future of the Oxford Egyptological Chair
  • Glanville requesting advice on finding someone suitable to write a reference for a proposed publication on Josef Čapek

Godron, Gerard - correspondence

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.

Goedicke, Hans - correspondence

19 letters from Goedicke, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Goedicke.
Goedicke's research, book exchange, and ostraca in Vienna.

Grdseloff, Bernhard - correspondence

14 letters from Grdseloff, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Grdseloff.
2 letters from Misha Grdseloff (brother of B. Grdseloff).
1 letter from Leonard Grdseloff (brother of B. Grdseloff).
Professional as well as personal matters.

  • Grdseloff's work plans
  • personal news of other Egyptologists (H. W. Fairman, J. Leibovitch and H. J. Polotsky)
  • exchange of off-prints and other publications
  • most significant topic is Deir el-Medina fieldwork and finds of ostraca, including the Cairo love songs (O. DeM 1266 + CGC 25218), published by G. Posener, see Posener, G. Catalogue des ostraca hiératiques littéraires de Deir el Médineh II: Nos 1227-1266 (1972) (OEB 15763), and later Fox, M. V. 'The Cairo love songs', in Journal of the American Oriental Society 100 [2] (1980), 101-9, (OEB 22733)
  • another significant topic is Grdseloff's illness (stomach cancer), Černý sent his own rations of Hovis bread to Egypt to Grdseloff as it was one of the few foods Grdseloff could still digest
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