Item Carter MSS vi.2.5 - Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): El-Bab El-Hosân (The Tomb of the Horse); The Rat and the Snake; Summer life in Egypt

1 folder

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

Presented by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1946.

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

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