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Edwards MSS 2.1.21 · Item · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

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.
Edwards MSS 2.1.2 · Item · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

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)
Edwards MSS 2.1.19 · Item · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

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).
Edwards MSS 2.1.16 · Item · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

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).
Edwards MSS 2.1.15 · Item · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

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).
Waterwheel, Sîut
Edwards MSS 2.1.14 · Item · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

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).
Human figures
Edwards MSS 2.1.11 · Item · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

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.
Title page
Edwards MSS 2.1.1 · Item · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

Pencil and watercolour sketch of Cairo mosque:

  • mounted
  • [on mount, top] 'Egyptian Scraps: 1874' (ink note)
  • [on mount] 'In the name of The Prophet - Cakes!" Moskee. Cairo.' (ink note)
Front end paper
Edwards MSS 2.1 · Item · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

Front end paper with 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).
Egypt large album
Edwards MSS 2.1 · File · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

Album containing drawings and watercolours during visit to Egypt in the winter of 1873-1874. Many of the preliminary sketches and watercolours in the album were used to illustrate her book A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, published in 1877.

  • Annotation on the title page: 'Egyptian Scraps: 1874' (ink note)
  • 38 numbered pages with 107 mounted items
  • includes watercolours, drawings and sketches made in Egypt, many with Edwards' annotated captions
Albums
Edwards MSS 2 · File · 1872-1892
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

This group consists of four albums.

  • Edwards MSS 2.1: Watercolours and drawings made in Egypt, 1874.
  • Edwards MSS 2.2: Watercolours and drawings made in the Dolomites, 1872.
  • Edwards MSS 2.3: Ephemera, including some Egypt and Dolomite-related material, 1872-1891.
  • Edwards MSS 2.4: Watercolours and drawings made in Egypt, 1874.
Notes and ephemera
Edwards MSS 1 · File · c. 1870s-1892
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

This group consists of two parts:

  • Edwards MSS 1.1-311
    • notebook with annotation on the cover: 'Notes & Extracts' (ink note)
    • 311 numbered ruled pages, with some loose and affixed items
    • includes a range of handwritten and printed material, watercolours and drawings
  • 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.
Edwards - Černý MSS 21.56, 485-533, 2392-93C, 2403-13, 2443-4 · File · 1946-1968
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

55 letters from Edwards to Černý.
11 letters to Marie Černý from Edwards, 2 draft letters from M. Černý to Edwards.
Professional as well as personal matters. Philology, publication of Abusir papyri, objects from the British Museum collections, Nubian campaigns; academic examinations and positions, including Černý's transfer from London to Oxford; family matters.
Particular issues include:

  • purchases of publications in Cairo
  • following Černý's death, Edwards corresponded with Marie Černý concerning the transfer of Černý's library to Prague
  • T. G. H. James to be recommended as The Lady Wallis Budge Fellow
  • the Palmer Holland squeezes material
  • papyri at Kingston Lacy
  • Coptic etymologies
  • Edwards' candidature for the British Academy, supported by Černý
  • stela of Rudjahau, in London, British Museum, EA 159, TopBib v.95-6
Edgerton - Černý MSS 21.474-7, 2093-4 · File · 1954-1955
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

3 letters from Edgerton, 1 carbon copy of a letter and one pencil draft of another letter from Černý to Edgerton.
Černý's visit to Chicago in early 1955, assessment of Miss Catherine E. Morton.

Edel, Elmar - correspondence
Edel - Černý MSS 21.54-5, 426-73 · File · 1948-1969
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

43 letters from Edel, 7 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Edel.

  • philology
  • publications
  • CEDAE expeditions
  • etymologies, including Coptic
  • the Nubian campaign - texts from Amara and Abu Simbel
  • Aswan fieldwork of Edel, hieratic texts on vessels from Aswan
  • book exchange
  • communication between European and Egyptian Egyptologists
Eaton-Krauss MSS · Collection · 1966-2024
  • Correspondence with other Egyptologists (now deceased) and some miscellaneous correspondence. Includes Eaton-Krauss's exchanges with Cyril Aldred, Martha R. Bell, Bernard V. Bothmer, Jochen Briegleb, Helmut Brunner, Ricardo A. Caminos, Henry G. Fischer, Wolfgang Helck, Barry J. Kemp, Christine Lilyquist, Jaromir Malek, Geoffrey T. Martin, William Murnane, James Romano, John Romer, and Walter Segal.
  • Notes and correspondence relating to articles and books peer-reviewed by Eaton-Krauss.
  • Recommendations for appraisals of academic posts.
  • Correspondence with Marc Gabolde between 1987 and 2023 about a research project to study the monuments associated with king Tutankhamun in the Temple of Karnak; accompanied by a chronological summary.
  • Folder with items relating to a Festschrift contribution on the el-Tôd Treasure, in press.
  • Folder with items relating to Eaton-Krauss's participation in "Transcending Eternity: The Centennial Tutankhamun Conference" (Luxor, 4-6 November 2022).
Marianne Eaton-Krauss
E. W. Lane MSS 8.23 · Item · c. 1825-1876
Part of Edward William Lane Collection

Tomb wall scene, a gazelle suckling a fawn:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.6 x 10 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] illegible pencil note
  • Detail from a wall scene, gazelle suckling calf, probably from scenes of bringing fowl and young animals in boxes (including hare, hedgehog, gazelles, and gazelle and young, from room I in the tomb of Nebemakhet [LG 86], son of Khephren, in the Central Field at Giza.