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)
  • Sketch II - An Account of Myself
  • Pages 19-72
  • Contains six subsections, I to VI

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")
  • 8 manuscript pages, notes to typescript pages
  • [Sketch X ?]

Howard Carter's autobiography, draft annotated typescript and draft annotated manuscript:

• Three Milk White Camels
  • 20 pages, annotated typescript, all pages, except title page, are crossed through (cancelled)
  • 1 section/chapter title page
  • 19 typescript pages, numbered [167]-185
  • [Discovery of the tomb of Tuthmosis IV]
• Sketch VII. A Fortuitous Discovery
  • 15 pages, annotated manuscript, none of the pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • Carter annotated the page numbers "1-15"
  • [Discovery of the tomb of Hatshepsut]

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)
  • Typescript unfinished or incomplete
  • Carter annotated the page numbers "1-5"
• Sketch V [Summer life in Egypt]
  • Notebook containing draft manuscript ("LUDGATE" | EXERCISE BOOK)
  • 6 pages, draft manuscript, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
• [Summer life in Egypt]
  • 3 loose pages, draft manuscript, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • Carter annotated the page numbers "1-3"
  • Draft manuscript used for the preparation of part of the preceding draft manuscript in the notebook

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, draft typescript and manuscript with the following section/chapter headings:

• A Sketch of Thebes
  • 15 pages, annotated typescript, all pages, except title page, are crossed through (cancelled)
  • 1 section/chapter title page
  • 14 typescript pages, numbered 31-44
• The Theban Necropolis
  • 15 pages, annotated typescript, all pages, except title page, are crossed through (cancelled)
  • 1 section/chapter title page
  • 14 typescript pages, numbered 45-58
• A Sketch of Thebes
  • 8 pages, annotated manuscript, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • Carter's manuscript used for the preparation of the preceding typescripts

Howard Carter's autobiography, draft typescript with the following section/chapter headings:

• The Excavator and his Task
  • 15 pages, annotated typescript and manuscript
  • 1 section/chapter title page (annotated by Carter: "Add interpolations in "Three milk white camels"")
  • 8 typescript pages, numbered 1-8 and 1 rider
  • 3 unnumbered typescript pages
  • 2 unnumbered manuscript pages
• The Ancient Egyptian Dwelling, Tomb and Temple
  • 12 pages, annotated typescript, most pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • 1 section/chapter title page
  • 11 typescript pages, numbered 9-19
• Ancient Egyptian Funerary Equipment
  • 12 pages, annotated typescript, many pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • 1 section/chapter title page
  • 11 typescript pages, numbered 20-30

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 manuscripts for Sketches VIII-IX and Sketch XI.

• 69 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
• Carter's annotated page numbers, "150" to "219"
• Sketch VIII. The Valley and the Royal Tombs
  • Pages 150-157
• Sketch IX. Tomb-Robberies and the Fate of the Royal Mummies
  • Original title A History of The Royal Mummies crossed through (cancelled)
  • Pages 158-194
  • Contains 7 subsections, II to VII
• [Sketch X. Freedom]
  • Carter's note on page 194 "For Sketch X. Freedom. Supp. ..."
• Sketch XI. The Finding of the Tomb of Amenophis I
  • Pages 195-219
  • Contains 1 subsection, II

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
  • Pages 112-121
  • Contains one subsection, "The Rat and the Snake"
• Sketch VI. Three Milk White Camels
  • Pages 122-141
• Sketch VII. A Fortuitous Discovery
  • Pages 142-149

Howard Carter's autobiography, drafts, manuscript and annotated typescript, with the following section/chapter headings:

• The Beginning
  • 7 manuscript pages
  • Handwriting not identified, edited and annotated by Carter, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • Original title "An Autobiographical Preface" is crossed through
  • Incorporated into the following typescript
• An Autobiographical Sketch
  • 72 pages, annotated typescript and manuscript
  • 61 typescript pages, numbered 1-61, edited and annotated by Carter, most pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • 11 manuscript pages, not numbered, notes to typescript pages
  • Original title "An Autobiographical Preface", "Preface" is crossed through and replaced by "Sketch"
  • Incorporated into the preceding manuscript

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.
• (13) Trench no. 5. Within the Great Enclosure.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 10 and 11 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Girdle Wall, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (10) View of the south-eastern corner of the Girdle Wall.
• (11) Fragment of Greek vessel, from foundations of Girdle Wall.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 7 to 9 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Palace buildings, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (7) View of trench no. 7. in the region of the Palace buildings, with excavation in progress.
• (8) Fragment of pottery with hieratic signs, 17th-19th Dynasty, found under Palace foundations.
• (9) View of trench no. 7 in the region of the Palace buildings.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 5 and 6 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Temple area, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (5) "Unearthing an inscribed [Ptolemaic] block on the temple site".
• (6) "Inscribed [Ptolemaic] block from the temple site."

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 3 and 4 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Temple area, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (3) Temple site, looking north
• (4) General view of Tell el-Balamūn, from the temple site

Howard Carter's photographs, numbered 1 and 2 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (1) View of Tell el Balamūn from the marshes in the north
• (2) View of Carter's camp
  For other views of the camp, see Carter MSS iv.42-44.

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.