• Album of drawings and watercolours made during Amelia Edwards's visit to the Dolomites.
• Album of drawings and watercolours made during her visit to Egypt in 1873-4.
• Album with 26 pencil sketches and one watercolour titled 'Small Egyptian Scraps, 1874', made during same visit to Egypt.
• Album, notebook, packet containing an assortment of drawings, letters, and notes, another packet contains copies of deeds and accounts issued following her death.
• Two watercolours of the temples on Philae island, assumed to have been painted by A. Edwards.
• First edition of Amelia B. Edwards, Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (1891); Kate Griffith's (née Bradbury) copy, with handwritten dedication to ‘My Katie - Novr. 1891 - A.B.E’.

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.

Front end paper:

• [On pasted note] '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).

• Leather binding created in 2002.

Five pencil sketches:

• top: Head of Ti
  • [on mount] 'Head of Ti. (a statue of IVth Dynasty in the Boolak Museum.) B.C. 4235.' (ink note)
• middle left: water seller
  • [on mount] 'Water seller of Cairo' (ink note)
• middle middle: donkeys
  • [on sketch] 'Cairo donkeys' (pencil note)
• middle right: water sellers
  • [on mount] 'Water sellers' (ink note)
• bottom: Sheik Salîm, Farshut
  • [on mount] 'Sheyk Saleem. (Farshoot)' (ink note). Sketch has additions in ink.

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)

Pencil and watercolour sketch of Cairo mosque:

• mounted
• [on mount] '"In the name of The Prophet - Cakes!" Moskee. Cairo.' (in ink)

Gebel Abu Foda, Middle Egypt:

• mounted
• watercolour
• [on mount] 'Gebel Aboofayda. Middle Egypt.' (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).

Market boat at Minieh:

• mounted
• watercolour
• [on mount] 'Market Boat. Minieh' (ink note).

9 pencil sketches:

• top left: man leaning on staff and woman with jar
• top middle: man
• top right: two women, one with a child
• middle left: woman with jar
• middle middle: man sitting
• middle right: woman with child
• bottom left: woman collecting water
• bottom middle: man with pipe
• bottom left: two men.

Nine sketches:

• top left: pencil sketch of donkey
• top middle: pencil sketch of mountains above Denderah
  • [on mount] 'Mountains above Denderah.' (ink note)
• top right: pencil sketch of man wading
• middle left: pencil sketch of two figures
• middle middle: pencil sketch of three men at Beni Suef
  • [on sketch] 'Benisouf' (pencil note)
• middle right: pencil sketch of seated figure
• bottom left: pencil sketch of male figure standing
  • [on mount] 'Georgi Hassan' (ink note)
• bottom middle: pencil and watercolour sketch of dahabiyyas
  • [on mount] 'Nerghaileh. W. Bank.' (ink note).

Four pencil sketches:

• top centre: two men with staffs; one standing, one sitting
• middle left: man standing
• middle middle: five men sitting and standing
• middle right: man standing
• bottom: three men and two camels.

Watercolour and pencil sketch of remains of structure and dahabiyyas:

• mounted
• [on sketch] 'Near Siout. Jany 1 1874' (painted note)
• [on mount] 'Waterwheel. Siout' (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 Coptic convent near Naqadah:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Coptic Convent - near Negada' (ink note).

Pencil sketch with two men and camel in foreground and remains of structure in the background.

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Bargaining for a Camel. Assouan.' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of palace gateway, Medinet Habu:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Palace Gateway: Medinet Haboot.' (ink note).

Pencil and watercolour sketch of dahabiyya near Aswan:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Native Boat. Assouan.' (ink note).

Two pencil and watercolour sketches:

• upper: building next to river
  • [on mount] 'Ruins of Coptic Convent. (near Philae.)'
• lower: structure with two male figures
  • [on sketch] 'Soudan traders at Manhatta. Jan 21.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] 'Trader's Camp: Manhatta.' (ink note).