• Journal letters
• November 23, 1885, to June 1, 1886.
• Handwritten.
• Petrie, assisted by F. Ll. Griffith and E. A. Gardner, resumes excavating at Naucratis. In January 1886, Gardner is left to continue excavating at Naucratis while Petrie and Griffith begin excavating at Nebesha. At the end of March 1886, Petrie moves to Dafana and excavates there.
• Main sites: Naucratis (Naukratis), Nabesha (Tell Nebesha; Tell Farun), and Dafana (Tell Dafana; Daphnae).
• Other sites: Tanis (San el-Hagar).
• Pages 7-9 and 45-6 are copies of letters by Petrie's mother Anne.

• Journal letters
• November 8, 1884, to May 31, 1885.
• Handwritten.
• At Naucratis, Petrie is assisted by F. Ll. Griffith, who is on his first visit to Egypt. In April 1885, Griffith is left to continue excavating at Naucratis while Petrie returns to Tanis to continue the previous season’s work. It was at Naucratis that Petrie earned the moniker “father of pots”, Griffith's being the “father of potsherds”, which is mentioned by Petrie in the journal.
• Main sites: Naucratis (Naukratis) and Tanis (San el-Hagar).
• Pages 15-68 and 92 are photocopies of the originals kept in the Egypt Exploration Society in London.
• Pages 69, 179 and 196-199 do not exist.
• Pages 21v, 40, 79v, 86v, 91v, 101v, 109v, 121v, 133v, 145v, 160v, 170v, 178v, 183v, 187v, 188v, 193v, 195v, 205v, 207v, 212v, 214v and 216v have not been scanned but are transcribed (secondary information).
• Pages 188[G]-200[G] are by Professor Griffith and the originals are kept in the Egypt Exploration Society in London; no photocopies nor scans exist in the Griffith Institute.
• Pages 217-223 are by R. W. P.; they are (not exact) copies of one of Petrie's letters.
• Some pages are misnumbered (page numbers repeated or in wrong order).
• The transcription follows the correct order of all the pages. Problems with the numbering system are indicated in the notes.

• Journal letters.
• November 7, 1883, through to July 7, 1884.
• Handwritten.
• In early December 1883, Petrie, accompanied by his friends Prof. and Mrs Sheldon Amos, charters a dahabiyeh from Cairo, travelling through the Wadi Tumilat to Ismailia, Petrie prospects sites along the way including the site for Petrie's next season which is later identified by him as Naucratis. In February 1884, Petrie begins his first large-scale excavations at Tanis which continue into June.
• Main site: Tanis (San el-Hagar).

2 letters. Thomas Little Heath is the sender.

Collection of antiquities and miscellanea collected by Miss Lane during her trips, including stone wall fragments, some with remains of decoration, Greek and Egyptian pottery fragments (modern and ancient), rough pottery oil lamps, shells, botanical specimens, strings of mummy beads, a decorated wooden spoon with an inscription to Miss Lane, a fabric sample and an ink well in the form of a boat.

Antique and modern postcards from various sources.

Watercolour showing the initial stages of one of Howard Carter's excavations.

Transcribed hieratic documents, photographs, annotated photocopies, notes on Deir el-Medina, unpublished material, etc.

Album (43.5 x 33.5 cm) of approx. 134 studio (including Beato) and smaller, possibly amateur photographs, put together following Miss Lane's two trips to Egypt and the Near East between 1873 and 1876. Locations include a number of cities in Egypt, Beirut, Damascus, Athens and Rome.

Original drawings by different artists and made for various publications.

Lower part of a stela showing the king with five dogs, year 50, Dyn. XI, from Dra Abu el-Naga, Antef Cemetery, Tomb of Antef (Wahankh), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 20512.