Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Carter MSS vi.2.5
Título
Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): El-Bab El-Hosân (The Tomb of the Horse); The Rat and the Snake; Summer life in Egypt
Fecha(s)
- c. 1930-1939 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Unidad documental simple
Volumen y soporte
1 folder
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
(1874-1939)
Historia archivística
Formerly in the possession of Howard Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Presented by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1946.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
Howard Carter's autobiography, draft typescript, a notebook containing a draft manuscript, and an annotated newspaper cutting. The typescript has the following section/chapter headings:
- El-Bab El-Hosân. "The Tomb of the Horse"
- 31 pages, annotated typescript, most pages, except title page, are crossed through (cancelled)
- 1 section/chapter title page, numbered here as [137]
- 30 typescript pages, numbered [138]-166 (NB Carter annotated the first pages in this section "1-8", the page numbers [138]-[145] were assigned in Griffith Institute)
- The Rat and the Snake: Being a tale from the coffee hearth
- 5 pages, annotated typescript, none of the pages are crossed through (cancelled)
- Typescript unfinished or incomplete
- Carter annotated the page numbers "1-5"
- Sketch V [Summer life in Egypt]
- Notebook containing draft manuscript ("LUDGATE" | EXERCISE BOOK)
- 6 pages, draft manuscript, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
- [Summer life in Egypt]
- 3 loose pages, draft manuscript, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
- Carter annotated the page numbers "1-3"
- Draft manuscript used for the preparation of part of the preceding draft manuscript in the notebook
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condiciones
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Existencia y localización de originales
Existencia y localización de copias
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.