Identity area
Reference code
Carter MSS vi.2.7
Title
Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): The Finding of the Tomb of Amenophis the First
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, annotated draft typescript and some inserted draft manuscript pages:
- The Finding of the Tomb of Amenophis the First
- 42 pages, annotated typescript with some inserted manuscript pages, most pages, except title page and 3 inserted pages between pages 200 and 201, are crossed through (cancelled)
- 1 section/chapter title page
- 34 typescript pages, numbered 186-214, and 3 inserted pages between pages 200-201 (Carter annotated these pages "15", "16" and "64")
- 8 manuscript pages, notes to typescript pages
- [Sketch X ?]
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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 originals
Existence and location of copies
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.