This group consists of two parts:

• part one: Edwards MSS 1.1-311
  • notebook, annotated on the cover: "Notes & Extracts"
  • containing 311 numbered ruled pages, with some loose and affixed items
  • content includes handwritten and printed material, watercolours and drawings
• part two: Edwards MSS 1.312-347
  • 1 package containing 36 loose, numbered items
  • ephemera, mixed media, including handwritten notes, letters, sketches, rubbings, poems, newspaper cutting etc.

Nine mounted pencil sketches:

• top left: man on donkey
• top middle: shaduf
  • [on mount] 'The Shadoof' (ink note)
• top right: man on donkey
• middle left: man
• middle middle: Damascus Gate, Cairo
  • [on mount] 'The Bab en Nasr - or Damascus Gate. Cairo' (ink note)
• middle right: man
• bottom left: two camels
• bottom middle: man
• bottom right: camel, man and three women with water jars
  • [on mount] 'Going to fetch water from the Nile' (ink note)

Five mounted pencil or pencil and wash sketches:

• top: Dahibyya
  • [on mount] 'native boat' (ink note)
• middle left: Sheik Cotton
  • [on mount] 'Holy Sheyk Cotton' (ink note)
• middle middle: a shaduf
  • [on mount] 'The Shadoof.' (ink note)
• middle right: Mehemet Ali
  • [on mount] 'Mehemet Ali.' (ink note)
• bottom: woman collecting water.

Two dahabeeyahs at Roda:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount] 'Native Dahabeeyahs. Roda' (ink note).

5 mounted pencil sketches: 4 depict camels; bottom sketch depicts the remains of a boat.

Three pencil and watercolour sketches:

• top: sunset
  • [on mount] 'Sunset (near Magada)' (ink note)
• middle: dahabiyya on the Nile
  • [on mount] 'Kasr es Syad & Gebel Tookh' (ink note)
• bottom: dahabiyya on the Nile
  • [on mount] 'Near Siout' (ink note).

Pencil sketch of marabouts near Siout

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Arab tombs near Siout' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of necropolis of Abydos and Kom es Sultan:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Necropolis of Abydus and Kom es Sultan' (ink note).

Nine pencil sketches:

• top left: person with staff
• top middle: man sitting and smoking
  • [on mount] 'Ali, the Nubian.' (ink note)
• top right: veiled woman with jars
• middle left: head of man
  • [on mount] 'Riskalli' (ink note)
• middle middle: group of men with boat near Manfalut
  • [on mount] 'Group of Natives (waiting for the Ferry) Manfaloot' (ink note)
• middle right: Man sitting
  • [on mount] 'Riskalli' (ink note)
• bottom left: Reïs Hassan
  • [on mount] 'Reïs Hassan' (ink note)
• bottom middle: man reclining on ?carved block
• bottom right: man standing
  • [on mount] 'Salame' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of hypostyle hall at Karnak:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Hypostyle Hall. Karnac. Looking East.'

Watercolour and pencil sketch of Hypostyle Hall at Karnak:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Hypostyle Hall. Karnak. Looking West.' (ink note).

Two images:

• upper: watercolour of the mountains above Thebes
  • [on mount] 'Mountain range above Luxor. East Bank.' (ink note)
• lower: clipping with engraving of landscape with caption: 'Mansanga, looking east from Moramballa Marsh'
  • [on clipping] Extraordinary resemblance to mountain range near Thebes, R. Bank. See sketch by ABE. S. East Africa. On the river [illegible], flowing out of Lake Nyassa, + into the Zambesi. This is near the mouth of the [illegible].' (pencil note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of rock inscriptions at Philae:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Inscribed Rock. Philae.' (ink note).

Pencil and watercolour sketch of the rock of Abusir:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'The Rock of Abooseer. Second Cataract' (ink note)

• [on label] 'This volume was re-bound through the generosity of AEMES (Ancient Egypt & Middle East Society, Lincolnshire), Manchester Ancient Egypt Society and the Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt (Derbyshire) in August 2002' (printed).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of Castellavazzo.

Two watercolour and pencil sketches:

• left: Piz Galina.
• right: Cortina with Antelao in the background.

Mounted watercolour sketch of Antelao from below the Crepa.

Mounted pencil and watercolour sketch of church spire near Cortina.

Monted watercolour of Cristallo seen from across Lago di Landro (Dürrensee).

Mounted watercolour of Becco di Mazzodi and La Rochetta ridge.

Two mounted watercolours:

• upper: Tofana
• lower: Notre Dame (Bosconero) from behind Cortina

Two mounted watercolours:

• left: Sasso di Ronch
• right: Pale di San Lucano

Mounted watercolour of unidentified landscape.

Mounted watercolour of the Rosengarten.

• [on mount] 'The Rosengarten from Bolzen. 3.30. Am.' (pencil note)

• [on label] 'With the compliments of the Acting Keeper of the Department of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford' (printed) '3 Albums brought down from upper Library by Mrs. Gunn. They seem to be Griffith, one having F.II. G. (underlined) inside.' (pencil note)

Ink drawing of Monte Gennaro:

• [on verso] 'Monte Gennaro (the Mons Lucretilis of Horace) from Monte Mario Rome - 1872' (ink note)

Pencil drawing of woman dancing:

• [on reverse] 'Roman peasant girl dancing the Saltarello. after Pinelli (undelined) ABE (underlined)' (pencil note)

Ink drawing of woman and crocodile:

• [on drawing] 'The Larches, Westbury-on-Trym, Nr. Bristol.' (printed) 'Act the Third (underlined) "''Tis distance lends enchantment to the view." May 1. 1888.' (ink note)