Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook containing manuscript for Sketches I-II, also some enclosures including loose manuscript notes, a typewritten note, and a newspaper cutting.
Sketches
72 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
Carter's annotated page numbers, "1" to "72"
A Summary of Egyptian Chronology
Pages 1-2
Sketch I - Introductory
Pages 3-18
Contains one subsection, II, the title of this subsection, The Temporary Dwellings, is crossed through (cancelled)
Howard Carter's autobiography, draft typescript and draft manuscript, with the following headings:
The Cemetery of the Queens
23 pages, annotated typescript, none of the pages are crossed through (cancelled)
1 section/chapter title page
22 typescript pages, numbered 215-236
[Sketch XII]
January 1938 - A Sketch
3 pages, annotated manuscript, none of the pages are crossed through (cancelled)
No page numbering
Carter's description of King Farouk's marriage to Safinaz Zulficar (after Queen Farida) on 10 January 1938, and the festivities celebrating their marriage
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")
Howard Carter's autobiography, draft typescript, a notebook containing a draft manuscript, and an annotated newspaper cutting. The typescript has the following section/chapter headings:
El-Bab El-Hosân. "The Tomb of the Horse"
31 pages, annotated typescript, most pages, except title page, are crossed through (cancelled)
1 section/chapter title page, numbered here as [137]
30 typescript pages, numbered [138]-166 (NB Carter annotated the first pages in this section "1-8", the page numbers [138]-[145] were assigned in Griffith Institute)
The Rat and the Snake: Being a tale from the coffee hearth
5 pages, annotated typescript, none of the pages are crossed through (cancelled)
Howard Carter's autobiography, draft typescript, a notebook containing a draft manuscript, and an annotated newspaper cutting. The typescript has the following section/chapter headings:
The Valley of the Tombs of the Kings
5 pages, annotated typescript, pages [59]-61 are crossed through (cancelled)
1 section/chapter title page
4 typescript pages, numbered [59]-62
A History of the Theban Royal Mummies
Decadence and Destiny: I to IX
"Sketch IX" (Carter's annotation on page [63]
82 pages, annotated typescript, most pages, except title pages, are crossed through (cancelled)
4 section/chapter title pages
78 typescript pages, numbered [63]-136
Notebook
19 pages, draft manuscript, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
4 loose pages with additional manuscript notes, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
draft manuscript used for the preparation of part of the preceding typescript
Newspaper cutting
Egyptian Mail Jan. 5. 1937 (Carter's annotation)
"Mummies May Be Re-Buried In Valley Of Kings | Selim Bey Hassan's Proposal"
Cutting from a single page, page number not recorded
Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook containing Carter's annotated manuscript recording his discovery in 1898, and excavation of, in 1900, the tomb of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep (Mentuhotp-Nebhepetre), Bâb el-Ḥoṣân (Bab el-Hosan), Deir el-Bahri (Deir el-Bahari).
Titled El Bab El Hosân ["The Tomb of the Horse"]
13 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
Carter's annotated page numbers, "1"-"23"
All pages are crossed through (cancelled)
Continuation, see Carter MSS vi.2.12
Earlier draft of Carter MSS vi.2.10 (pages 87-102): "Sketch IV. The Tomb of the Horse"
Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook with enclosed notes, containing Carter's annotated manuscript recording his archaeological training with Sir W. M. F. Petrie
43 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
Carter's annotated page numbers, "28"-"70"
All pages are crossed through (cancelled)
Earlier draft of Carter MSS vi.2.9 (pages 36-72): [Sketch II: An Account of Myself]
Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook containing Carter's annotated manuscript recording his discovery in 1898, and excavation of, in 1900, the tomb of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep (Mentuhotp-Nebhepetre), Bâb el-Ḥoṣân (Bab el-Hosan), Deir el-Bahri (Deir el-Bahari), Thebes.
13 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
Carter's annotated page numbers, "25"-"35"
All pages are crossed through (cancelled)
Continuation of Carter MSS vi.2.14.
Earlier draft of Carter MSS vi.2.10 (pages 102-111): "Sketch IV. The Tomb of the Horse"
Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook containing manuscript for Sketches III-VII, also some enclosures including loose manuscript notes, a typewritten note, and a newspaper cutting.
76 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
Carter's annotated page numbers, "73" to "149"
Sketch III - Thebes
Pages 73-86
Contains four subsections, I to IV
Sketch IV - The Tomb of the Horse
Pages 87-111
Contains three subsections, I to III
Sketch V. Summer life and a Tale from the Coffee-hearth
Transcriptions of royal attributes for Ramesses IV, from his tomb, KV 2, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Weight of Shepses, stone, Old Kingdom, from Edfu, bought by Carter in Cairo. [see TopBib v.205A]
Lion-hunt scarab of Amenophis III, blue glazed steatite, found during excavations in Luxor temple in 1917 and purchased by Carter "for C.". A very similar scarab, or the same one, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 74392.
Howard Carter's notebook of hieratic palaeographic notes on individual signs, groups, royal names and a few longer texts, with hieroglyphic transcriptions. Perhaps compiled during Carter's excavations and explorations (graffiti and inscribed objects).
Howard Carter's draft pencil sketches of the upper part of a musician holding clappers and various hands, details from the Festival of Opet scenes, Eastern Wall of the Processional Colonnade in Luxor Temple.
Howard Carter's photographs numbered 14 to 16 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, trench 5 within the Great Enclosure wall, Tell el-Balamūn.
(14) View of trench no. 5, within the Great Enclosure, with excavation in progress.
(15) View of aqueduct in trench no. 5
(16) View showing stone slabs crossing the aqueduct in trench 5.
Howard Carter's photographs numbered 12 and 13 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, within the Great Enclosure wall, Tell el-Balamūn.
(12) Trench no. 6. A detached house within the Great Enclosure wall.
Howard Carter's photograph of pottery vessels found in trench no. 5, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn. Another photograph with a different view of the same group of vessels, see Carter MSS iv.19 (34).
Howard Carter's photograph of pottery vessels found in trenches nos. 3, 3a and 3b, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn. These vessels were also photographed as part of a larger group, see Carter MSS iv.18 (31).
Howard Carter's photographs numbered 35 and [36] with manuscript captions, finds from trenches nos. 2 and from Temple and Palace area site, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
(35) Trench 2, pottery vessel, Greek period.
[36] From various parts of the site, pottery vessels.
Howard Carter's annotated manuscript report on the Carnarvon-Carter excavations at Tell el-Balamūn, in 1913. Group includes:
"Note on the Capital of the 17th Nome, Sebennytos Inferior. Pa-aa-n-amen. Diospolis Kato. H. Carter Ap. 6. 1915".
Carter's transcriptions of site names, copied from various sources.
The report contains 30 numbered paragraphs that mention several finds including inscribed blocks, the base of a statuette, and a stela. The report has the following section headings:
General description
History
Excavations
Antiquities
18 lined pages with affixed photographic prints accompanied by manuscript captions. Carter numbered these pages as plates ii-xviii and they were intended to accompany this report, see Carter MSS iv.3-20.
Howard Carter's photographs numbered 33 and 34 with manuscript captions, finds in trenches nos. 3 and 5, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
(33) Trench 3, two pottery vessels, right pot "contained debased silver jewellery of Ptol. XIII Period."
(34) Trench 5, pottery vessels.
Another photograph with a different view of the same group of vessels in (34), see Carter MSS iv.41.