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Correspondence from Reverend David Goodwin Loveday (Headmaster, Cranleigh School) inviting Newberry to tea.

Correspondence from Allys R. Lortet relating to her house in France and selling a 16th century carpet.

Also includes calling card with list of luggage made by Newberry on the back.

Correspondence from Victor Loret (1859-1946) including relating to excavation work at Drah Abou'l Neggah (1898) and research on the olive and moringa (1923).

Includes letter granting permission to the Marquis of Northampton assisted by Newberry and Wilhelm Spiegelberg to excavate at Drah Abou'l Neggah including sketch map of the permitted area, 2 November 1898, and draft letter to Loret relating to the contract and the geographical limits of the excavation.

Also includes telegram from Howard Carter to Newberry stating work had been stopped by the inspector, December 1898.

Note:
MSS 29/31 is also numbered 10
MSS 29/32 is also numbered 14
MSS 29/34 is also numbered 12
MSS 29/35 is also numbered A.183
There is also a telegram without a reference which is numbered 11

Letter from Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) requesting information.

Letter of thanks from C. M. Lloyd on behalf of Sir John Brunner.

Note:
This letter is also numbered A.278

Letter from O. H. Little (Geological Survey of Egypt) in response to an enquiry from Newberry on literature on the vegetation of the El Arish District.

Letter from Marie Little (Sister of Dora Little) sending birthday greetings.

Includes smaller letter in an envelope wishing Newberry a happy birthday.

Correspondence from Dora Little relating to travel in Europe. Also includes request for information on a granite amulet with a sketch.

Correspondence from J. Lister inviting Newberry to events at the Technical Institute, Tunbridge Wells.

Letter from E. R. Lindsay relating to two pieces of glass sent by him to Newberry.

Note:
This letter is also numbered A.353

Draft letter from Newberry to the Librarian of U.N.E.S.C.O. requesting books.

Correspondence from Carl Ferdinand Friedrich and Therese Lehmann-Haupt including relating to the Chair in Greek at the University of Liverpool.

Also includes letter of thanks from Lehmann-Haupt's wife Therese to Mrs Newberry.

Note:
MSS 29/15 is also numbered A.195
MSS 29/16 is also numbered 273
MSS 29/17 is also numbered 37 (38 crossed out)
MSS 29/18 is also numbered 39

Correspondence from George Francis Legge including news from Egypt and reference to James Henry Breasted, T. Eric Peet, and Henri Édouard Naville.

Note:
MSS 29/8 is also numbered A.348
MSS 29/9 is also numbered A.345
MSS 29/10 is also numbered A.346

Letter from Louis Theophile Lefort requesting to see a papyrus in the Amherst collection [in French].

Note:
The signature has been identified during previous archival processing as Lafort

Correspondence from Gustave Lefebure (Service des Antiquités, Egypt) arranging to meet Newberry in Egypt.

Correspondence from Edward Thurlow Leeds (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) including corrections to Newberry's list of nome signs (1916), relating to relocating material during the war including two predynastic bowls belonging to Newberry, Newberry sending his filing cabinets to the Griffith Institute (1939), damage during World War Two, donation of items by Newberry including Egyptian textiles (including draft reply from Newberry), museum acquisitions and copyright ownership of the Howard Carter material.

Also includes: copy of a letter from Newberry to Leeds on copyright ownership of the Howard Carter material; draft letter from Newberry on work during World War Two and gifting books to the Griffith Institute; draft letter from Newberry on donating Persian tiles to the Ashmolean Museum.

Correspondence from W. Melville Lee arranging to meet Dr Coopland.

Note:
This letter is also numbered 313

Correspondence from Thorold D. Lee (Arthur H. Lee & Sons Ltd., Tapestry Works) including relating to photographs for a paper by Lee on tapestries, and examination of a girdle.

Correspondence from Gordon Ambrose de Lisle Lee (1864-1927) (Heralds' College, London) relating to a Newberry family coat of arms.

Letter from Jean Leclant relating to protodynastic vases at the Louvre Museum, Paris [in French].

Letter from William Lawrence inviting Newberry to see some embroideries.

Correspondence from Lady Iris Lawrence including relating to Newberry's photograph of climbing goats, Newberry putting his name down for the Red Cross Interpretation List for Arabic and a draft reply from Newberry on gardening, plant cuttings an article by Thomas Henry Huxley on Gentians and referring to meeting him in 1887.

Correspondence from Hugh Last (Honorary Secretary, Egypt Exploration Society) relating to meeting Newberry in Cairo, pictures of Tell el Amarna and Beni Hasan, and Mary Jonas' retirement.

Correspondence from Ambrose Lansing (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) including inviting Newberry to visit, reference to Georg Steindorff, dating scarabs, and in response to an enquiry from Newberry on standards on predynastic pots.

Also includes draft reply from Newberry relating to his research on standards as featured on predynastic red-on-buff pottery (1948).

Correspondence from Neville Langton relating to his research on cats and cylinder seals. Includes notes on cylinders with cat figures and the bast sign.

Letter from Hans Osterfeldt Lange relating to the purchase of Middle Kingdom papyri.

Correspondence from Stephen Herbert Langdon (1876-1937) including relating to ladanum, making arrangements to visit and a lecture by Newberry at the University of Oxford.

Note:
MSS 28/26 is also numbered 312
MSS 28/27 is also numbered 312a
MSS 28/28 is also numbered 382

Correspondence from Carl Johan Lamm including relating to horticulture and photographs of Newberry's wool embroideries.

Correspondence from Winifred Lamb including relating to scarabs and gardening.

Correspondence from Sir Walter Rougeby Lamb (Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts, London) relating to an 'International Exhibition of the Art of Greater India' scheduled to be held in 1940 but cancelled due to the outbreak of war.