Item Carter MSS vi.2.10 - Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): 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

1 notebook

Formerly in the possession of Howard Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker.
Loaned to the Griffith Institute in 1946-1947, and then returned to Miss Walker.

Presented by Miss Phyllis Walker in June 1959.

Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook containing manuscript for Sketches III-VII, also some enclosures including loose manuscript notes, a typewritten note, and a newspaper cutting.

• 76 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
• Carter's annotated page numbers, "73" to "149"
• Sketch III - Thebes
  • Pages 73-86
  • Contains four subsections, I to IV
• Sketch IV - The Tomb of the Horse
  • Pages 87-111
  • Contains three subsections, I to III
• Sketch V. Summer life and a Tale from the Coffee-hearth
  • Pages 112-121
  • Contains one subsection, "The Rat and the Snake"
• Sketch VI. Three Milk White Camels
  • Pages 122-141
• Sketch VII. A Fortuitous Discovery
  • Pages 142-149

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Black leather binding
• Ruled pages
• 25.8 x 20.5 x 1.2 cms
• Stamped manufacturer's logo on the outer back cover:
  • Positioned centrally, impressed/stamped/embossed square containing "C" enclosing the Earth (shows Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia)
  • Positioned lower right corner, impressed/stamped/embossed text "No. 1028"

• Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
• Transcribed first in the late-1990s by Sue Hutchison (Griffith Institute Administrator), and again in 2006 by Dr Charlotte Booth. Both sets of transcription files are owned by the Griffith Institute.

• For an earlier draft of:
  • Pages 87-102 (The Tomb of the Horse), see Carter MSS vi.2.14.
  • Pages 102-111 (The Tomb of the Horse), see Carter MSS vi.2.12.

Formerly Carter notebook 16.