Identity area
Reference code
Gunn - Černý MSS 21.77, 956-1023
Title
Gunn, Battiscombe G. - correspondence
Date(s)
- 1938-1949 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
0.5 cm, 69 letters
Context area
Name of creator
(1898-1970)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Some letters not in chronological order within the assigned Archive numbering sequence.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Gunn MSS in the Eckley B. Coxe expedition papers, The Archives of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.