Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook containing Carter's annotated manuscript recording his discovery in 1898, and excavation of, in 1900, the tomb of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep (Mentuhotp-Nebhepetre), Bâb el-Ḥoṣân (Bab el-Hosan), Deir el-Bahri (Deir el-Bahari), Thebes.
13 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
Carter's annotated page numbers, "25"-"35"
All pages are crossed through (cancelled)
Continuation of Carter MSS vi.2.14.
Earlier draft of Carter MSS vi.2.10 (pages 102-111): "Sketch IV. The Tomb of the Horse"
Howard Carter's drafts of his autobiography were intended for publication, but not completed or published. Carter referred to these drafts as "autobiographical sketches", and the manuscripts and typescripts were most likely composed in the 1930s.
Earlier annotated manuscript
6 notebooks
219 pages
Section/chapter headings within this group include:
Sketch I. Introductory
Sketch II. An Account of Myself
Sketch III. Thebes
Sketch IV. The Tomb of the Horse
Sketch V. Summer life and a Tale from the Coffee hearth
Sketch VI. Three Milk White Camels
Sketch VII. A Fortuitous Discovery
Sketch VIII. The Valley and the Royal Tomb
Sketch IX. Tomb-Robberies and the Fate of the Royal Mummies
Sketch XI. The Finding of the tomb of Amenophis I
Later annotated typescript
8 folders
236 pages
Section/chapter headings within this group include:
Autobiographical preface
The Excavator and his Task
The Ancient Egyptian Dwelling, Tomb and Temple
Ancient Egyptian Funerary Equipment
Sketch of Thebes
The Theban Necropolis
The Valley of the Tombs of the Kings
A History of the Theban Royal Mummies Decadence and Destiny I-IX
El-Bab El-Hosân 'The Tomb of the Horse'
Summer life in Egypt
The Rat and the Snake
A Fortuitous Discovery [The discovery of Queen Hatshepsut's tomb]
Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on Ay and Ankhesenamun, part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty. This group includes:
Letter from Percy E. Newberry regarding a ring with the cartouche of Ankhesenamun alongside the prenomen of Ay
Ay's titlary from his tomb, KV 23, Valley of the Kings, Thebes
Letter and photograph regarding a brick found at E. & W. Lake Ltd, Park Road, Newhall, near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. These premises were formerly the site of a brickworks owned by Lord Carnarvon, that produced the bricks which were shipped to Egypt for the construction of Carter's house "Castle Carter" (Castle Carter II) at Dra Abu el-Naga, Thebes.
Photograph of a sample brick stamped "MADE AT BRETBY ENGLAND FOR HOWARD CARTER A.D. THEBES 1910".
Photocopy of the letter from Mr P. M. White to the Keeper of the Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum, dated 16 February 1985.
Howard Carter's photographs, views of a town on the Mediterranean coast, probably Damietta. The photographs are part of Carter's records for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.