Correspondence from Lady Hedwig Gardiner (wife of Sir Alan Gardiner) including letters of thanks and relating to travel in Egypt (1902).

Correspondence from Sir Alan Gardiner including on research, travel, his family, publication of articles in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, and contemporary Egyptologists.

Includes correspondence relating to: the Ramasseum papyri; inscriptions including the inscriptions of Mes; work in Egypt including at the tombs of Amenemapt, User and Rekhmara, and the Osireon at Abydos; occurrences of names; the Carnavon tablet; Gardiner’s catalogue of Theban tombs; requesting notes from Newberry on tombs including the tomb of Khety; Gardiner's copy of an inscription compared to a copy by Max Müller; the Egypt Exploration Society (EES); Blackman taking pupils out to Egypt in 1919; employment of Mary Jonas as secretary to the EES; exhibition at the Burlington Fine Arts Club; confirmation of Newberry’s publication of scene in Tomb of Huy; work of Amice Calverley; funding for the EES; Newberry’s resignation from the EES; purchase of papyri for the British Museum; philology and deciphering hieroglyphs; Carter’s papers on tomb of Tutankhamun; the Second World War including news of Gardiner’s son John; research on the owl; agricultural land in Egypt; Menes; the Turin papyrus; Nitocris; writing a companion to Egyptian studies; obituary of Petrie written by Newberry; death of Paul Smither; Miss Phyllis Walker's donation of Howard Carter's records to the Ashmolean and infringement of copyright; contact with German Egyptologists after World War Two; Bonomi papers; etc.

Egyptologists mentioned include Henry Lyons, Flinders Petrie, T. Eric Peet, Arthur Weigall, Pierre Lacau, Aylward Blackman, Raymond Faulkner.

Also includes some draft replies from Newberry and letters from Gardiner to Howard Carter relating to the publication of an article.

Also includes page of notes on names titled Sethe and notes on an article on Sebknofru and ‘On Transcriptions’.

A few letters include notes on the back mostly of one or two words.

Note:
MSS 18/1 is also numbered 5
MSS 18/2 is also numbered A.249
MSS 18/3 is also numbered 31
MSS 18/7 is also numbered A.1
MSS 18/8 is also numbered 67
MSS 18/10 is also numbered A.99
MSS 18/13 is also numbered A.302
MSS 18/18 is also numbered 354
MSS 18/19 is also numbered A.238
MSS 18/20 is also numbered A.241
MSS 18/21 is also numbered A.5
MSS 18/22 is also numbered A.295
MSS 18/29 is also numbered 263
MSS 18/31 is also numbered 288
MSS 18/32 is also numbered 253
MSS 18/35 is also numbered A.10
MSS 18/36 is also numbered A.11
MSS 18/37 is also numbered A.22
MSS 18/40 is also numbered 308
MSS 18/46 is also numbered 220
MSS 18/47 is also numbered 1a
MSS 18/48 is also numbered 1
MSS 18/55 is also numbered A.150
MSS 18/56 is also numbered A.137
MSS 18/57 is also numbered 151a
MSS 18/58 is also numbered A.157
MSS 18/59 is also numbered A.138
MSS 18/60 is also numbered A.138
MSS 18/61 is also numbered A.140
MSS 18/62 is also numbered A.141
MSS 18/66 is also numbered 143

Correspondence from Thomas Gann including two letters to Professor J. L. Myres relating to the shipment of antiquities and two letters to Newberry relating to sending him orchids and the sale of Gann's collection.

Note:
MSS 17/3 is also numbered A.342
MSS 17/4 is also numbered A.343
MSS 17/5 is also numbered 286

Letter of thanks from A.M. Gabriel.

Note:
This letter is also numbered A.135

Letter from Sami Gabra relating to excavation at Petasiris.

Note:
This letter is also numbered A.146

Correspondence from Henry Frowde (Oxford University Press) including one letter to Lord Carnavon relating to the press release for Five Years' Exploration at Thebes, and an acknowledgement of Newberry's letter.

Also includes draft re-write of the press release by Newberry.

Letter from John Albert Newton Friend requesting a reprint of Newberry's presidential address to the British Association and any information on the use of iron and metals by early peoples.

Letter of thanks from J.C. French.

Postcard from Lady Lily Frazer inviting Newberry and Miss Murray to tea.

Correspondence from Sir James George Frazer relating to travel in Egypt and reference to Newberry's view of Osiris being originally a cedar.

Note:
MSS 16/40 is also numbered A.59
MSS 16/41 is also numbered A.59a

Correspondence from George Willoughby Fraser including one letter to Miss Edwards (13 January 1892) relating to the transport of items from Egypt and discoveries made with M.W. Blackden. Four letters sent to Newberry (1920-22) including relating to The Outline of History by H.G Wells, and a coptic cap.

Note:
MSS 16/39 has been removed for conservation and has not been included in this description.
MSS 16/35 is also numbered 32
MSS 16/37 is also numbered 234
MSS 16/38 is also numbered A.14

Correspondence from Henri Franfort mainly in relation to his work for the Egypt Exploration Society.

Includes letters on: the Pepy cylinder; work at Abydos; Peker; work at Erment; visiting the Bissing collection and museum in Leiden (1928); work at Armana; identifying scarabs;
possibility of finding Dr Käthe Bosse work outside Germany (1937).

Note:
MSS 16/14 is also numbered A.81
MSS 16/15 is also numbered 230
MSS 16/16 is also numbered 5
MSS 16/17 is also numbered A.71
MSS 16/18 is also numbered 297
MSS 16/23 is also numbered 21
MSS 16/24 is also numbered 2
MSS 16/25 is also numbered 7

Correspondence from George Foucart including relating to an article by Keimer in the Bulletin de l'Institut Francaise d'Archeologie Orientale, and the state of the Theban necropolis.

Letter from Ferida Galassi Foucart relating to Newberry's research on Libyans.

Letter from A. Forestier relating to Holofernes, Judith and Egyptian beds.

Letter from Henry Ogg Forbes (The Free Public Museums, Liverpool) responding to an enquiry by Newberry on references to the geology of Egypt.

Note:
This letter is also numbered 262

Letter from Eliot Foote thanking Newberry for sending a pamphlet and relating to travel in Egypt.

Note:
This letter is also numbered A.28

Letter of thanks from Foad Boghdady, Cairo Museum.

Letter from Ralph Flenley relating to the publication of his book on the Welsh Marches.

Letter from Miss R. Fleming (Royal Anthropological Institute) accepting Newberry's offer to review an article. Letter from Newberry relating to his identification of two scarabs found in Wiltshire.

Letter from Owen Fleming relating to Ightham village.

Letter from Clarence S. Fisher relating to purchasing Newberry's dahabiyeh.

Correspondence from Cecil Mallaby Firth including asking Newberry to purchase an amethyst bead, on the effect of the war on the relationship between Great Britain and France, Pierre Lacau and the exploitation of Egyptian antiquities by foreign museums. Also includes letter written from Saqqara thanking Newberry for a plan.

MSS 15/65 also includes some sums on the back.

Letter from Henry Field (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago) referring to his new position at the museum and expressing pleasure at meeting Newberry.

Note:
This letter is also numbered 2

Correspondence from Alice L. Felton (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) requesting an image of Winifred Brunton's portrait of King Menes.

Letters of recommendation [in French] for Dr Baron G.J. Fejérváry from Dr G. Horvath, Dr Othenio Abel, Baron Francois Nopcsa, Dr J. Bethencourt Ferreira, and Dr C. de Papp.

Correspondence between Raymond O. Faulkner and Newberry including on their research and publication of Newberry's article on the sacred pole in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology.

Topics discussed include: Hay and Bankes; sewn ships; the unification of Egypt and evidence including the Cairo slate palette, Narmer palette, and the Hierakonpolis ivory cylinder; Neith and Sais; Menes; Cottrell's broadcast on Akhenaton; the harpoon ensign in relation to publication by Baumgartel; the origin of hieroglyphic writing; Heliopolis; Onomartica by Gardiner; application for professorship at Liverpool University; drawings done by Myrtle Broome; olive trees.

Letter from Louis de Farcy advertising two books.

Letter from Maurice H. Farbridge relating to vacancies in oriental studies.

Note:
This letter has also been numbered A.292

Letter from L. Fammit (Museum Valletta, Malta) relating to the Has-Saflieni necropolis.

Note:
This letter has also been numbered A.55