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NEWB2/535 · File · c.1913 One letter undated
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection

Correspondence from Ramsay Muir including relating to Liverpool University Press and the work of Francis Pierrepont Barnard at the University of Liverpool University.

Note:
MSS 32/1 is also numbered 380

NEWB2/534 · File · May 1948 Newberry's draft reply is not dated
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection

Letter from James Frederick Mountford (Vice-Chancellor, Liverpool University) on candidates for the Brunner Chair Egyptology, and draft reply from Newberry on the merits of Herbert Walter Fairman, Raymond Oliver Faulkner, Miles Frederick Laming Macadam and Walter Emery.

NEWB2/533 · File · 1925 - 1949
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection

Correspondence from Rosalind Louisa Beaufort Moss relating to her work at the Griffith Institute and research for the Topographical Bibliography. Includes research on Princess Ahmose Hentempet, early travellers in Egypt, Queen Khnemtnefert-hezet, as well as seeking information on Egyptian antiquities, and collections of antiquities and manuscripts.

Also includes letter relating to Charles Wilkinsons' work in Iran (1941) and cataloguing the papers of William John Bankes which were donated to the Griffith Institute.

Also includes draft replies from Newberry including relating to a sketchbook belonging to Sir Charles Barry, the papers of Bankes, and photographs from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Also includes letter of thanks to Newberry's wife Essie.

Note:
MSS 31/29 is also numbered 52
MSS 31/31 is also numbered 228

Morse, R.D. - correspondence
NEWB2/531 · File · 4 February 1936
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection

Letter from R.D. Morse (Ginn and Company Ltd., Publishers) relating to the production of colour blocks made from Newberry's Queen Tiy miniature and referring to the death of James Henry Breasted.

NEWB2/529 · File · 10 July 1927 - 27 October 1927
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection

Correspondence from Maria Morgensen (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen) including relating to a pectoral of a priest of Amenhotep I from the sale of the Amherst collection and enclosing a photograph and cutting of the pectoral.

NEWB2/523 · File · 1902 - 1931 No letters 1904-1931
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection

Correspondence from Sir Robert Ludwig Mond relating to payment for excavation work (1902); excavating at Qen Amen with Howard Carter (1903); the concession of Sheikh Abd el Qurna (1904) and an exhibition by the Egypt Exploration Society of Egyptian jewellery (1931).

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MSS 49/23 is also numbered 6
MSS 49/24 is also numbered 7
MSS 49/25 is also numbered 57

NEWB2/521 · File · 1936 - 1938
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection

Correspondence from Harold N. Moldenke (The New York Botanical Garden) including relating to: travel in Europe; in response to an enquiry from Newberry on the identification of a fragrant gentian from the Colorado mountains; thanking Newberry for his paper on olives.

Meyer, Kuno - correspondence
NEWB2/515 · File · 1904 - 1914
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection

Correspondence from Kuno Meyer including relating to the University of Liverpool and concerns relating to J.M. Mackay.

Also includes a newspaper cutting on the appointment of Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Lehmann-Haupt to the Gladstone Chair of Greek at the University of Liverpool, 17 May 1911.

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MSS 30/106 is also numbered 385b
MSS 30/107 is also numbered 385a
MSS 30/180 is also numbered 385
MSS 30/109 is also numbered 385
MSS 30/110 is also numbered 385
MSS 30/111 is also numbered 385

NEWB2/514 · File · 1904 - 1908 One letter undated
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection

Correspondence from Eduard Meyer including an invitation to dinner [in German], and relating to whether the Egyptian Museum of Berlin would like to purchase the 'Mena tablet'.

NEWB2/513 · File · 9 September 1907
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection

Letter from Lady Valerie Susie Meux relating to a request by Newberry to see some scarabs.

Letter includes notes on the back by Newberry including a list which is possibly a contents list for a book.

Note:
This letter is also numbered 35

NEWB2/508 · File · 1920s Two letters undated
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection

Correspondence from Grace Tytus McLellan (formerly Grace de Peyster Tytus, wife of Robb de Peyster Tytus, née Henop) to Newberry and his wife.

Includes letter (MSS 30/48) relating to the death of her first husband Robb de Peyster Tytus, writing a memoir in his memory, items belonging to him from the Palace of Amenhotep III and marriage to her second husband.

Also includes Christmas card (1924) with a photograph of her house at Ashintully, Tyringham, Massachusetts in snow.

Note:
MSS30/46 is also numbered 244
MSS30/47 is also numbered 334a
MSS30/48 is also numbered 334
MSS30/49 is also numbered A.67