File Gunn - Černý MSS 21.77, 956-1023 - Gunn, Battiscombe G. - correspondence

0.5 cm, 69 letters

68 letters from Gunn, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Gunn.
Regular exchange of professional information, including:

• Černý's publications, and publications exchange
• purchase of books from Alec Dakin
• A Festschrift for A. Gardiner - negotiating with authors, application to potential sponsors (considered Chester Beatty, John D. Rockefeller, IFAO, etc.), major sponsors declined so the idea was transformed into a dedicated volume of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
• reading of Egyptian literary texts, including Černý coming to attend seminars at Oxford
• mutual consultations
• advising each other's students - P. Massart, E. Jelínková(-Reymond), Z. Žába

Some letters not in chronological order within the assigned Archive numbering sequence.

• الانجليزية

Gunn MSS in the Eckley B. Coxe expedition papers, The Archives of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.