Item Carter MSS vi.2.13 - Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): [An Account of Myself]

1 notebook

Formerly in the possession of Howard Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker.

Presented by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1946.

Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook with enclosed notes, containing Carter's annotated manuscript recording his archaeological training with Sir W. M. F. Petrie

• 43 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
• Carter's annotated page numbers, "28"-"70"
• All pages are crossed through (cancelled)
• Earlier draft of Carter MSS vi.2.9 (pages 36-72): [Sketch II: An Account of Myself]

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Grey card cover
• Ruled pages
• 20.3 x 16.4 x 0.3 cms
• Printed on front cover:
  • The "Ludgate"
  • Excercise
  • Book
  • "REKARTS" | (Regd.) | SERIES | No. 6 Ex.
  • Name.......................
  • Class........................
  • School......................
  • Date.........................
• Printed on back cover:
  • [Tables]
  • Sterling Money Table; Avoirdupois Weight; Capacity
  • Length; Time; Area
  • Multiplication Table (Extended)
  • Days in the Month; Numeration Table; Arithmetial Signs
  • Troy Weight; Metric System; Metric System
  • W. STRAKER LTD.,
  • STATIONERS & PRINTERS
  • LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C. 4, AND BRANCHES.

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

Later draft, see Carter MSS vi.2.9, pages 36-72.

Formerly Carter notebook 19.