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Carter MSS vi.2.5
Nadpis
Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): El-Bab El-Hosân (The Tomb of the Horse); The Rat and the Snake; Summer life in Egypt
Date(s)
- c. 1930-1939 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 folder
Context area
Name of creator
(1874-1939)
Archival history
Formerly in the possession of Howard Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1946.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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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Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Existence and location of copies
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.