Akt(e) Edwards - Černý MSS 21.56, 485-533, 2392-93C, 2403-13, 2443-4 - Edwards, Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen - correspondence

0.5 cm, 68 letters

55 letters from Edwards to Černý.
11 letters to Marie Černý from Edwards, 2 draft letters from M. Černý to Edwards.
Professional as well as personal matters. Philology, publication of Abusir papyri, objects from the British Museum collections, Nubian campaigns; academic examinations and positions, including Černý's transfer from London to Oxford; family matters.
Particular issues include:

• purchases of publications in Cairo
• following Černý's death, Edwards corresponded with Marie Černý concerning the transfer of Černý's library to Prague
• T. G. H. James to be recommended as The Lady Wallis Budge Fellow
• the Palmer Holland squeezes material
• papyri at Kingston Lacy
• Coptic etymologies
• Edwards' candidature for the British Academy, supported by Černý
• stela of Rudjahau, in London, British Museum, EA 159, TopBib v.95-6

• Englisch

British Museum Departmental Correspondence, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan.