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NEWB2/504 · File · 1912 - 1928 One letter undated
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection

Correspondence from Sir John Grenfell Maxwell (1859-1929) including letter suggesting to Newberry where he should dig at Sakha with sketch map, and including notes by Newberry on flora (1912).

Also includes letter to Mary Jonas on asking Lord Carnavon to 'preside' (1922) and circular requesting donations to the Egypt Exploration Society (1928).

Note:
One letter does not have a Dawson reference but is also numbered A.80

NEWB2/506 · File · 1890s - 1900s Several letters undated
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection

Correspondence from Marie Louise Dora McClure including relating to the Egypt Exploration Fund, social events and accommodation for Egyptologists visiting for a congress.

Note:
MSS 30/15 is also numbered A.247
MSS 30/17 is also numbered 17
MSS 30/18 is also numbered 22
MSS 30/19 is also numbered 16
MSS 30/20 is also numbered 30
MSS 30/21 is also numbered 30

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

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

NEWB2/514 · 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'.

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.

Note:
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

NEWB2/521 · 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.

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).

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

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.

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.