Three notebooks containing Gell's copies of hieroglyphic inscriptions from objects and publications, also drawings (some coloured) of objects seen by Gell in museums and private collections.
1 letter from Gerster, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Gerster. Photographs of Protosinaitic inscriptions; Gerster's plans to prepare a book on Nubia; the Aswan dam project.
16 letters from Glanville, 1 copy of a letter from Černý to Glanville. 1 copy of a letter from Glanville to A. J. Arkell, copy sent to Černý. 1 memorandum of agreement between Černý and the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press. 1 letter from Glanville to Jean Tudor-Pole (Černý’s secretary). 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Carl Winter, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Professional and personal matters:
Černý’s arrival in the UK in 1946
Černý’s external examinership for Cambridge
A. J. Arkell's situation
publication of the rock-tombs at Meir, see Blackman, A. M. and Apted, M. R. The Rock tombs of Meir, v (1954) (OEB 1684) and vi (1954) (OEB 1685)
Černý’s communications with the Fitzwilliam Museum concerning photographs for Georges Nagel
furthering Černý’s participation in the Cambridge Ancient History volumes
the future of the Oxford Egyptological Chair
Glanville requesting advice on finding someone suitable to write a reference for a proposed publication on Josef Čapek
Various papers and correspondence connected with the obituary written by Dr I.E.S. Edwards and published in JEA 42 (1956), 99-101. Includes a portrait and a distribution list of Glanville's papers.
7 letters from Godron 1 carbon copy of a letter from (Helen Murray?, Černý's colleague) written on behalf of Černý's to Godron 1 copy of a letter to Godron, presumably forwarded to Černý Godron's studies in early dynastic material, Palermo stone, collections at Mariemont, and Godron's Coptic studies; Godron's visits to the United Kingdom.
TT 223; Chapter 104 of the Book of the Dead in Second Pillared Hall, Pillar 3, north face (as ‘Text from a scene’ in published volume) [TopBib i2.324A [as position unknown in published volume]].
