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Letter from Elizabeth Spiegelberg (Wife of William Spiegelberg) including thanking Newberry for a book and referring to Newberry's correspondence with her husband.

Correspondence from Wilhelm Spiegelberg including relating to: research; his marriage (1898); excavation plans (1898); thanking Newberry; political situation in Egypt (1898); publications; work on inscriptions; arranging to visit Newberry and having Newberry to stay; life after the First World War including restrictions on travel, work, and family news (1921); comments on papers by Newberry; teaching Mr Bellairs Egyptology (1928); management of the Egyptian museum, Cairo (1930).

MSS 41/31 includes a watercolour sketch, which is a self portrait of Spiegelberg working at a desk surrounded by papers and books (1902).

MSS 41/34 is a letter to Lord Carnarvon relating to a chapter for publication and thanking him for the time working for him (1911).

Also includes two picture postcards, one of 17 Daniel Hirtz Strasse, Strasbourg and one of the Piramidi di Terra sul Renon.

Note:
MSS 41/12 is also numbered A 232
MSS 41/13 is also numbered A 361
MSS 41/14 is also numbered A 262
MSS 41/15 is also numbered 54
MSS 41/17 is also numbered 55
MSS 41/18 is also numbered 44
MSS 41/19 is also numbered 46
MSS 41/20 is also numbered 45
MSS 41/21 is also numbered 53
MSS 41/22 is also numbered 52
MSS 41/23 is also numbered 49
MSS 41/24 is also numbered 48
MSS 41/25 is also numbered 47
MSS 41/26 is also numbered 50
MSS 41/27 is also numbered 45
MSS 41/32 is also numbered 322
MSS 41/37 is also numbered A.317
MSS 41/41 is also numbered 40
MSS 41/43 is also numbered 32

Letter from R. Phane Spiers (d.1916) relating to a publication by Flinders Petrie on the Pyramid of Meyden.

Note:
This letter is also numbered A.283

Letter from M. Sprengling (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) requesting a contribution towards a portrait of James Henry Breasted.

Correspondence from Flaxman C.J. Spurrell (1842-1915) relating to the analysis of fragments of colour for Newberry, research on sickles, and a collection of vegetable substances.

Letter from Otto Stapf (1857-1933) (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) including relating to the identification of a rose.

Correspondence from William Thomas Stearn (Royal Horticulture Society) relating to botany and gardening including identification of plants, Moringa and his research on the genus Allium (onions). Also includes draft reply from Newberry on the pomegranate.

Correspondence mostly to Essie Newberry with some correspondence to Newberry including relating news of his family in the period around and during the Second World War. Also includes reference to other Egyptologists in Germany, excavation work at Aniba, and work on a Coptic Grammar.

Also includes draft reply from Newberry on what he did during the Second World War and damage from bombs (1946).

Several letters are in German.

Also includes photograph of Steindorff at his home in California (1946).

Note:
MSS 42/2 is also numbered A.218
MSS 42/3 is also numbered A.231
MSS 42/4 is also numbered A.254
MSS 42/5 is also numbered 21
MSS 42/6 is also numbered 18
MSS 42/8 is also numbered 33
MSS 42/12 is also numbered A.118
MSS 42/13 is also numbered A.119
MSS 42/14 is also numbered A.117
MSS 42/15 is also numbered A.115

Correspondence from Thomas Smith Sterling relating to travel, his work and asking Newberry to write an article on Persian embroidery.

Note:
MSS 43/1 is also numbered A.112
MSS 43/2 is also numbered A.112a

Correspondence from Robert O. Steuer including relating to photographs of olive trees in Palestine and his publications.

Letter from Dorothy Stevens and two draft replies from Newberry relating to his collection of embroideries and movement of belongings during the Second World War, as well as a small glass vase.

Letter from Edmund W. Stevens (Ginn and Company Publishers) relating to engravings of a miniature of Queen Tiy.

Letter from William Stone relating to travel in Egypt.

Note:
This letter is also numbered A.261

Letter from Jerome Stoneborough including relating to his family and work in Vienna and enclosing correspondence with Baron Weisz relating to an inscription on a stela belonging to him (3 letters, February 1932).

Letter from Ella C. Sykes (Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society) on Newberry's election as a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Letter from Agoybi Tadris requesting employment.

Correspondence from G.A.D. Tait (Eton College) relating to the museum at Eton College of Egytian antiquities (known as the Myers Museum) including refurbishment, display of objects, objects of interest, visits by Newberry and his donations and assistance, exhibitions, affects of World War Two, and the involvement of the 'boys'. Also includes draft letter from Newberry on his activities during the War (1943).

Letter from Elaine Tankard (Liverpool Museum) relating to whether Newberry's Egyptian collection survived the destruction caused by a fire bomb in 1941.

Letter from M.H. Tattersall [incomplete] relating to ancient Egyptian chronology.

Letter from W.M. Tattersall (Manchester Museum) relating to the donation of a collection of Egyptian scarabs.

Correspondence from the Editor of Nature relating to the publication of Newberry's presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1923), and obituaries of Sir Robert Mond (1938) and Howard Carter (1939).

Letter from Ernest S. Thomas inviting Newberry to give a lecture to the Oxford University Anthropological Society.

Correspondence from Charles John Samuel Thompson (d.1942) inviting Newberry to give a paper to the Section of The History of Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine.

Correspondence from Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson including relating to his research on the Great Frigatebird; an Egyptian dog like a greyhound; philology; comments on Newberry's paper on the Shepherd's Crook.

Also includes draft reply from Newberry referring to Thompson's question about dogs in ancient Egypt, war work and the crane dance (1942).

Note:
MSS 43/45 is also numbered A.100

Correspondence from Sir Herbert Thompson including relating to supporting Peet (1910), research on the lily in Egypt and his health and library (1942).

Correspondence from Reginald Campbell Thompson (1876-1941) including thanking Newberry for a dinner party.

Correspondence from Douglas Thornton including relating to travel to Port Sudan and fragments of pottery and glass brought back.

Correspondence from Jocelyn Thorpe including relating to his nomination by Newberry to the Burlington Fine Arts Club (1923) and apologising for not using an article by Newberry (1938).

Correspondence from Isabel Thurburn including relating to an exhibition of embroideries.

Note:
MSS 43/64 is also numbered A 272
MSS 43/65 is also numbered A 273

Correspondence from Lady Helen Mary Tirard (1854-1943) including asking Newberry to put in a good word for Pendlebury (1929) and Newberry's resignation from a committee [?] (1929).