• Leather binding created in 2002.

Handwritten poem:
'To his mummy, (who is older than he) -

What shall I call thee? Mummy, - Sweetheart mine,
Where shall I find thee?... if in truth I dare
To disinter thee from the desert plain
And carry off thy body to afar.

Where shall I find thee? Burrowing with my hands
Tale[?] deep in the earth, as when they seek to meet
Some prised treasure. Yes, to far off lands
we'll travel now this summer fair my sweet.

Thy home shall be some great museum, framed
With all the splendours art can cast around,
Where thou shalt soon midst wond'ring peoples stand,
Nor think x [?] more to lie in native ground.

Yes come, I know, thou wilt! For well nigh due
Is now another find; since two days past
Have not seen a portrait, and anew
I seek to find another love at last.

I waked last night from dreams of finds, and lo!
Five new tombs have we opened now today,
And sure in one of them, deep down, full low,
Thy smiling face is lying! Come away!

Away dear love to meet and greet the sun,
Which yet thou hast not seen for ages past,
When thou lay down, Europe had scarce begun
To run its course, which thou shalt see at last.

Swift, swift, we'll travel by Northern shore
Dear lady! from the drowsy East fly fast,
Darkness + ignominy are no more,
Thy treasured features now are mine at last.

Hawara

W.m.F.P.
With many apologies to A.B.E.

Ink drawing of man walking:

• [on recto of drawing] 'Mr Smith ascending the Kobel-alp.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'or "The British Tourist ascending the Kobel-alp.' (ink note)
• [on verso of drawing] 'Amelia B. Edwards' (underlined) (pencil note)

Ink drawing of man:

• [on drawing] 'Pictorial biography (underlined) of AB.E. The only Man I ever really loved.' (ink note)

Bound in brown leather.

Ink drawing of bells ringing.

Handwritten letter with ink drawing of carving:

• [on drawing] 'Corner of the Via Augustales Pompeii. May 14th 1891. A.B.E. Saville Villa. August 25th /91. My own darling one - Tomorrow will be thy birthday, + a littly sketch is all a poo' Owl has to send thee - but Owl thinks that perhaps a wee littly sketch from Pompeii, done from the one made when poo' Owl was such a very very poo' Owl, will please thee more than a more valuable gift. My precious one, I am so glad thou art in a beautiful place for thy birthday, + getting fine air, + mountains, and good walks - even though thou art far distant from thy poo' poo' Owl. God bless thee my own oney - + I hope thou wilt have many, many birthdays, + happy years between each, + that thy Owl may live ~~thee~ to give thee less anxiety + more happiness for the future. I have walked to the end of the promenade this morning, + back, before luncheon - the first time I have taken a real good walk so early. It had been pouring in torrents all the morning, + I thought, as it was then holding up, I had better make the most of it. I felt all the better for it, + ate a capital luncheon when I came in. ' I enclose a very satisfactory letter from Petrie - satisfactory both as to the [?] + the Haworths. I [?] hope he will stick to it (woodside, I mean) + not put it off till he has no time left for it. I tried, in writing to him, to let him see by a sort of sidelight, that I deemed it of real importance - + yet not to make too much of it. I did not want to make him feel the painful weight of obligation - + yet I tried that he should gather that I was grave about it. He is so very sharp, that I fancy he wd. not fail to seize a shade of meaning, however slight. He has returned Goodyear's cutting, so I now send it to thee - but I want it back for the Haworths, who have not yet seen it. Baby's little drawing of the tablet is very good - very good indeed. I am sure the oney could draw well with a little teaching + application. How curious the recumbent figure in the "pinked" shroud is, at the bottom!' (ink note)

Handwritten letter with ink drawing of owl:
' I send it to thee to read, will a 'return' [?] [?]? Will thy Owl what S. Chester charges thee for the amulets. I cannot find the string of scarabs that came to me with the rest of Sir. E. Wilsons little collection - + am troubled. I should be so sorry if they were p[?]ing mislaid or lost, like Petrie's things. My sweet, own, darling baby lover-bird, goodbye. Thy poor, lonely, fond, crippled little Martyred Owl' (in ink).

Ink drawing of Sion in Switzerland above beginning of letter:
'April 9th / 88 My own love - I have first verified the addresses on about 200 Reports - + done up a lot of copies of [?]' (in ink)

Ink drawing of landscape with buildings and mountains:

• [on verso of drawing] 'Sketch - ??? I forget where - Griding[?] Nag[?] or Tyrol. (underlined) ABE' (pencil note)

Pencil and watercolour sketch of countryside scene:

• [on the reverse of sketch] 'On the Mole - foot of Box hill. (underlined) Unfinished rough sketch 1856. (underlined)' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of scarab beetle at the Temple of Dendur:

• mounted
• [on drawing] 'Dendoor' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Scarabæus over S. door + Lotus ornament. Dendoor.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of the headdress of a king:

• mounted
• [on drawing] 'Edfoo' (pencil note)
• [Headdress of a King:. North wall Great Hall. Temple of Edfoo.' (pencil note)

Cover bound in brown leather.

Nine mounted pencil sketches:

• top left: seated male figure
• top middle: male figure from behind
  • [on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
• top right: male head
• middle left: head of woman
  • [on mount] 'Woman of Derr' (ink note)
• middle middle: male figures
  • [on mount] 'Cataract Nubians. (Shellalee)' (ink note)
• middle right: head of woman
  • [on mount] 'Woman of Derr' (ink note)
• bottom left: standing male figure
• bottom middle: male figure
  • [on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
• bottom right: standing male figure.

Pencil drawing with Christian altar in the first hypostyle hall at Philae temple complex:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Early Christian Shrine. Temple of Isis. (Philae)' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of landing place at Aswan:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Assouan. (The traders landing place.)' (ink note).

Pencil drawing of shrine of legs of Osiris:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Shrine of legs of Osiris: Osiris Chamber - Philae' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of sistrum at Abu Simbel:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Bas relief of Sistrum. Temple of Hathor Aboo Simbel.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Rameses II W. Wall. Library - Aboo Simbel.'

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.

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).

Gebel Abu Foda, Middle Egypt:

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

Three mounted pencil and watercolour sketches:

• top: pencil sketch of landscape near Kalabsha
  • [on mount] 'Island & Coptic Ruins near Kalabsheh. (Nubia)' (ink note)
• middle: pencil and watercolour sketch of Temple of Gertasseh
  • [on mount] 'Temple of Gertasseh (Nubia)' (ink note)
• bottom: pencil and watercolour sketch of town near Maharraqa
  • [on mount] 'Ruins of ancient fortified Town (unknown) near Maharrakeh. (Nubia)' (ink note).

Seven pencil sketches:

• top left: dahabiyya
• top middle: five figures
• top right: standing male figure
• middle: skeleton of camel
  • [on sketch] 'In the Desert. March 11th 1874' (in pencil)
  • [on mount] 'Skeleton of a Camel.' (ink note)
• bottom left: standing male figure
  • [on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
• bottom middle: three male figures
  • [on mount] 'Cataract Nubians.' (ink note)
• bottom right: reclining male figure
  • [on mount] 'Cataract Nubian' (ink note).

Ink drawing of woman sketching with crocodile:

• [on drawing] 'The Larches Westbury-on-Trym Nr. Bristol.' (printed) 'April 20th. 1888. The delights of sketching from Nature, 1000 miles up the Nile.' (ink note)

Mounted watercolour and pencil sketches of Castellàz and Monte Serrata from Pieve di Zoldo.

Mounted watercolour of Sassolungo and Sassopiatto.