File Drioton - Černý MSS 21.397-402 - Drioton, Étienne - correspondence

Identity area

Reference code

Drioton - Černý MSS 21.397-402

Nadpis

Drioton, Étienne - correspondence

Date(s)

  • 1949-1961 (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

0.5 cm, 5 letters and draft

Context area

Name of creator

(1898-1970)

Content and structure area

Scope and content

5 letters from Drioton, Černý's draft for his obituary for Drioton.
Professional and personal matters, the situation in Egypt after the Second World War (WWII). A draft of Černý's obituary for Drioton.

Conditions of access and use area

Language of material

  • angličtina
  • francouzština

Allied materials area

Related units of description

Archives d’Étienne Drioton (1889-1961) (donation Josèphe Jacquiot), Musée Municipal Josèphe Jacquiot, Montgeron.
See also IFAO: http://www.ifao.egnet.net/bases/archeg/?id=14.

Notes area

Note

Drioton and Černý were in professional and personal contact from at least the time of Černý's first trip to Egypt in Winter 1925. It is likely that a part of the correspondence preceding WWII was lost.