Letter from Lady Olga Egerton (wife of Sir Edwin Henry Egerton) relating to an exhibition of needlework.

Note:
This letter is also numbered A 246

• Photograph, black and white, photographer not known.
• Made by the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
• Effigy of Tutankhamun lying on bier [Carter 331a], in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60720.

Correspondence between Iowerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards (British Museum) and Newberry, and to Mrs Newberry, including arranging visits and discussing various books and articles, news from the British Museum and the Egypt Exploration Society, donation of Newberry's artefacts to the British Museum.

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

Correspondence from Elizabeth Edwards thanking Newberry for gifts and with news of family.

Correspondence from Amelia Blanford Edwards (1831-1892) relating to the work of the Egypt Exploration Fund; production of Newberry's book Beni Hasan; the work of Fraser and Blackden; telegram on the death of Edwards. Also includes letter to Griffith on his proposal to delay Newberry's publication and on transliteration and Egyptian types.

Some letters have been dictated by Edwards and signed by Emily Paterson, Private Secretary.

Note:
MSS 13/4 is also numbered 97
MSS 13/5 is also numbered 131
MSS 13/7 is also numbered 107
MSS 13/18 is also numbered 124
MSS 13/19 is also numbered 125
MSS 13/24 is also numbered 144
There is an additional letter between MSS 13/25 and MSS 13/26 which is numbered 140
MSS 13/27 is also numbered 60
MSS 13/28 is also numbered 36
MSS 13/29 is also numbered 59
MSS 13/31 is also numbered 2 and 54

Drawings, notebooks, notes and correspondence.

Three albums containing drawings and watercolours.

• Hincks MSS 1: Correspondence, and Warren Dawson's handwritten catalogue for the same ['Box A', 'Box B' and notebook]
• Hincks MSS 2: Notes, unfinished lecture ['Box C']
• Hincks MSS 3: A small number of plaster casts made from Egyptian and Assyrian objects [two small boxes]:
  • Egyptian funerary cones (Davies and Macadam, Nos 3 and 20)
  • Marriage scarab of Amenhotep III [Amenophis III] (perhaps Blankenberg van Delden A18)
• Hincks MSS 4: A hand copy made by W. R. Dawson of Hincks, 'On Certain Egyptian Papyri in the British Museum', published in Transactions of the British Archaeological Association at its Second Annual Congress held at Winchester, August 1845 [one notebook]
• Hincks MSS 5: Portrait painting (oil on canvas, 79 x 104 cm, 107.5 x 133 cm with frame) by Richard Hooke (1820-1908)

Notes and a transcribed and translated Coptic letter (no. 1133).

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.

Christmas greeting from William Edgerton.

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

Letter from Georg Moritz Ebers (1837-1898) relating to Newberry's book Beni Hasan.

Note:
This letter is also numbered 24

Folder titled 'Geography: Eastern and Libyan Deserts' and numbered 6 containing notes on the Eastern and Libyan deserts.

• Tutankhamun-related jewellery.
• Pair of drop-shaped earrings, lotus-flower on clip, with guardian statue [Carter 22] design on pendant drops, clip-on fitting.
• Goldtone metal decorated with enamel (black, red and white).
• Manufacturer, not known.
• Probably manufactured in the 1920s.

Early copies - note by Kahle that the copies are very inaccurate.

Egypt Exploration Society Committee documentation.

Folder titled ‘Dynasty XVIII T.IV A.III Amarna excluding Ay’. The folder contains several envelopes, listed below, with material relating to the 18th Dynasty.

Envelopes include:

1. Notes on the tomb of Tuthmosis IV (TopBib i.559), including sketches of the tomb, notes and sketches of items found in the tomb, including a throne and wooden boats.
   Includes:

   • Notes and copy of hieroglyphs on wooden panels from sides of a throne (Right side: Boston Museum, 03.1131; Left side: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 30.8.45) (TopBib i.561)
   • Notes and sketch, a fragment of a wooden fan (Cairo Museum, 46095) (TopBib i.561)
   • Notes and sketches on the back of a throne (Cairo Museum, 46096) (TopBib i.561)
   • Notes and sketch, right side of a chariot interior (Cairo Museum, 46097) (TopBib i.560)

2. Notes relating to inscriptions in tomb TT64 belonging to Hekerneheh (TopBib i.128), including inscriptions from the vestibule of the tomb used in Newberry, Percy E. 1928. 'The sons of Tuthmosis IV.' Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), 82-85 (OEB 146401). Also includes a letter from H.E. Winlock on work in TT64 (2nd April 1925).

3. Notes and inscriptions relating to Tuthmosis IV and his family. This material also references and relates to Newberry, Percy E. 1903. Extracts from my notebooks (VII). Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 25, 357-362 (OEB 187707).
   Including:

   • Copy of inscription on statuette of Hekerneheh found by Newberry in 1898 in tomb TT63.
   • Notes, tracings, drawings and translations of wooden mummy labels with hieratic inscriptions (National Museum Scotland, 1956.154-67) found by Alexander Rhind in the tomb of Amenophis III (TopBib i.671)
   • Drawing of a wooden label of Amenemapet, daughter of Tuthmosis IV, purchased by Newberry at Thebes in 1901
   • Photographs of ostracon with hieratic inscription (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 90.6.3)

4. Notes, drafts and copies of inscriptions relating to Amenhotep III, including on his wife Queen Tyi [Tiy; Tiye], father Tuthmosis IV, and daughters.

5. Notes on Amenhotep IV [or Akhenaton], Nefertiti, Semenkhkare, Yuya, tombs at El Amarna and history of the 18th Dynasty.
   Includes:

   • Notes relating to Newberry, Percy E. 1928. Akhenaten's eldest son-in-law 'Ankhkheprurē'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), 3-9 (OEB 146342), and Tomb 139 (TopBib i.252), including tracing of slab (shown in figure 4, p.8).
   • Family tree of Amenhotep III
   • Notes on the chronology of tombs at El Amarna
   • Notes on Petrie, W. M. Flinders 1894. Tell el Amarna. London: Methuen & Co. (OEB 147222)

6. Notes on Tutankhamun, including on the tomb and copies of inscriptions.
   Includes:

   • Letter from Howard Carter to Newberry on the identity of Tutankhamun and the meaning of an inscription on a whip from his tomb, 3rd December 1931
   • Copy of inscription from the vestibule of TT64 used in Newberry, Percy E. 1928. 'The sons of Tuthmosis IV.' In: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), 82-85 (OEB 146401) (see item 2 in this folder).
   • Notes on botanical specimens found in the tomb and letter from Royal Botanic Gardens Kew on the analysis of a piece of wood from the shrine of Tutankhamun, 3rd July 1925

7. Notes, sketches and copies of inscriptions from the Rock Chapel of Min at el-Salamuni, Akhmin (TopBib v.17). Also includes notes, not by Newberry, titled ‘Suggestions as to P.E.N.’s copy of Ay inscription, Akhmin’.

8. Notes, sketches, sketch plans of the tomb, copies of inscriptions from KV23 of Ay (TopBib i.550).

9. Handwritten and typed drafts, notes and copies of inscriptions relating to Tiy, Ay, Tutankhamun, Amenhotep III, and their relationship to one another. Includes typed drafts titled ‘The problem of Ay and his Queen Tyi’.

10. Letter from Norman de Garis Davies to Newberry on tomb TT192 belonging to Kheruef, the Steward of Queen Tiy.

11. Letter from Henry Hall to Newberry on a stela depicting Seker and Tutu (British Museum, EA 211), 31st January 1923, with a rubbing of an inscription on a granite fragment (identified during previous archival processing as a fragment of the sarcophagus in the tomb of Ay (Cairo Museum, Temp. No. 3.8.39.1) (TopBib i.551). The letter has been labelled as ‘King Ay’ by Newberry.

12. Notes relating to Ay, including reference cards with copies of inscriptions and notes on the tomb.

13. Notes and reference cards relating to Tyi, Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, Amenhotep IV and Nefertiti.

Folder titled 'DYN XVIII to death of AII [Amenhotep II]' containing research material on the 18th Dynasty.

Includes:

-Typed and handwritten notes on Kings and Queens of the 18th Dynasty, including King lists, occurences of names on inscribed objects, notes titled 'Sethe's view of Th. [Tuthmosis] I. II. III. and Hatshepsut', typed draft on the history of Dynasty XVIII, typed draft on Queen Ahhotep, and notes on mortuary temples

-Handwritten notes on Kamose

-Handwritten notes on Ahmose I, Amenhotep I, Tuthmosis I

-Handwritten notes on Ahmose I and Queen Ahmose-Nefertari including drawing of a scarab

-Handwritten notes on Tuthmosis I

-Handwritten notes on Tuthmosis II

-Handwritten notes on Hatshepsut and copy of an inscription from the base of an obelisk taken from Lepsius, R., Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, (1849)

-Rubbings and drawings of inscriptions on vase fragments relating to Hatshepsut

-Handwritten notes on Tuthmosis III and draft lecture on relations with Asia under Tuthmosis III

-Handwritten notes on Amenhotep II

-Handwritten notes on the 18th Dynasty including notes on Amenhotep, son of Hapu and notes from a publication on New Kingdom Stelae, Leiden

Folder containing research material on the 12th Dynasty.

Includes:
-Notes on King Lists
-Typed and handwritten notes on Amenemhet I and related inscriptions
-Handwritten notes on Senusret I and related inscriptions including copy and photograph of the Stela of Antefoker (TopBib v.101) (Leiden Museum, AP 7)
-Handwritten notes on Amenemhet III and related inscriptions
-Typed and handwritten notes on Nitocris, copies of a typed draft titled 'A Hitherto Unrecognised Queen Nitokris of the Twelth Dynasty' and notes on a statue group of Amenemhet and two princesses (Cairo Museum, JE 43104) (TopBib iv.51)
-Handwritten notes on Amenemhet IV including cuttings of images of a Cosmetic Box of Kemeni (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1438) (TopBib, i.619(25)), and handwritten and typed versions of a draft
-Notes on Ammenemes III (also known as Amenemhet III), Ammenemes IV (also known as Amenemhet IV) and Sobknefru (also known as Sobekneferu) including handwritten draft and copy of published version of Newberry, P.E., 'Co-regencies of Ammenemes III, IV and Sebknofru', in JEA 29, 74-5 (1943) (OEB 146350), and handwritten and typed copies of a draft titled 'Queen Kasebekre Nefrusebekshedeti'
-Handwritten notes on Hatnub graffiti (TopBib iv.237-239)
-Inscriptions from Wadi Hammamat (TopBib vii.328) taken from Couyat, Jules: Les inscriptions hiéroglyphiques et hiératiques du Ouâdi Hammâmât / par J. Couyat et P. Montet. - Le Caire : Impr. De l'IFAO, 1913. (OEB 137441) p.48 [43], plate XIII, and Sinai (TopBib vii.345-366) taken from Gardiner, Alan H. and T. Eric Peet 1917. <i>The inscriptions of Sinai. Part I: introduction and plates</i>. Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund [36]. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (OEB 139938)
-Handwritten notes on Princess Ptahnofru

There is a small folder at the back which has been labelled 'XII-XIII Dyn' and 'Miscellaneous' during previous archival processing and includes notes relating to the 12th Dynasty, including a draft letter to Alan Gardiner on the transcription of King's names.

Folder titled 'Kings 5-8 - History - Dynasty I' containing 4 folders labelled by Newberry containing research material relating to the 1st Dynasty.

Folder titled 'Dyn 1 Wdymus Khaskhati - 5' contains research material relating to Queen Merneith and King Den from published sources. It includes:
-Notes, cuttings, tracings and drawings of labels, tablets and seal impressions of Den and Merneit from Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1900. <i>The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty</i>. Part 1. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (OEB 147184), Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1901. <i>The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties</i>. Part 2. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (OEB 147184), Amélineau, Émile: <i>Les nouvelles fouilles d'Abydos. 1896-1898</i>. 3 vols (OEB 133443), and Emery, Walter B. 1938. <i>The tomb of Hemaka. Excavations at Saqqara.</i> Cairo: Government Press (OEB 138968)
-Rubbings of two fragments of a label with the name of Den (Cairo Museum, JE 34904)

Folder titled 'Dyn 1 Merpba - 6' contains material relating to King Anedjib, or Adjib, including:
-Notes, drawings, rubbings of seal impressions and inscriptions mostly taken from Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1900. <i>The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty</i>. Part 1. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (OEB 147184) and Amélineau, Émile. 1897. <i>Les nouvelles fouilles d'Abydos</i> Volume II (OEB 133443), Gunn, Battiscombe 1928. Inscriptions from the Step Pyramid site. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 28, 153-174 (OEB 221815)
-Cuttings of images and plans of the tomb of King Azab-Merpaba (TopBib v.82)

Folder 3 titled 'Dyn 1 Smerkhat Semempses - 7' contains material relating to King Semerkhet, including:
-Photograph of a stela of Semerkhet (Cairo Museum, CG 14633) (TopBib v.85)
-Drawings and cuttings of seal impressions mostly taken from Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1900. <i>The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty</i>. Part 1. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (OEB 147184)
-Cuttings of images of the tomb of Mersekha-Semempses (TopBib v.85)

Folder 3 titled 'Dyn 1 Kc Sn - 8' contains material relating to King Qa'a (also known as Ka'a), including:
-Photograph of a stela of Qa'a (Cairo Museum, CG 14631) (TopBib v.86)
-Drawings and cuttings of seal impressions and other inscribed objects mostly taken from Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1900. <i>The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty</i>. Part 1. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (OEB 147184)
-Notes on King Qa'a
-Rubbings of fragments of bowls bearing the name of Qa'a (Cairo Museum, JE 55261; JE 55255, JE 55257, JE 34398)

Folder titled 'History Dynasty I Kings 1-4' containing 6 paper folders labelled by Newberry and two envelopes.

Folder titled 'Dyn 1 Lists' includes:

-Notes, rubbings and drawings on the Palermo Stone

-Notes on King lists for the 1st Dynasty

Folder titled 'Dyn 1 Narmer Menes - 1' includes:

-Notes on Narmer, Menes, Aha and monuments bearing the name of Narmer, including draft notes for Alan Gardiner

Folder titled 'Dyn 1 Aha - 2' includes:

-Two letters from Walter Emery to Newberry on 'The Son of Isis' and Hor-Aha seal, August 1938 (there are replies to this correspondence in Envelope 2, NEWB075).

-Tracings and cuttings from Emery, Walter B. 1939. ?or-A?a. Excavations at Saqqara (1937-1938). Cairo: Government Press (OEB 138960), Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1901. The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties. Part 2. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (OEB 147184), Petrie, F. et al, 'Abydos II', (1903) (OEB 146956)

-Notes, tracings, drawings and cuttings relating to Aha

Folder titled 'Dyn 1 Zer Ta - 3' includes:

-Notes, tracings, cuttings and drawings relating to Zer [also referred to as Djer]

-Cutting of Newberry, Percy, 'Egyptian Historical Notes II: 6. The Stela of King Zer', in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology Volume 36 (OEB 187736)

-Cuttings from Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1900. The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty. Part 1. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (OEB 147184) and Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1901. The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties. Part 2. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (OEB 147184).

Folder titled 'Dyn 1 Zet - 4' includes:

-Notes, tracings, cuttings and drawings relating to Zet and the Tomb of Zet [also known as Djet]

-Notes on seals of the reign of King Zet

Folder titled 'Emery Hor aha' includes:

-Notes, tracings, and cuttings including from Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1901. The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties. Part 1. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (OEB 147184), Petrie, W. M. Flinders. 1901. The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties. Part 2. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (OEB 147184) and Petrie, W. M. Flinders, et al. 1902-1904. Abydos, 3 vols. London: Egypt Exploration Fund (OEB 146956).

The two envelopes include:

-Tracings and drawings of seal impressions from The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

-Notes on labels including ivory and wooden labels of the 1st Dynasty, labels used for oils and unguents, and labels for necklaces and strings of beads

Folder titled 'Predynastic. History' although this has been crossed out containing another folder titled 'First Dynasty Potmarks - Cairo Museum'.

Loose material:
-Photographs of line drawings of predynastic objects from a publication
-Drawings of pot marks with Cairo Museum temporary register numbers

Folder titled 'First Dynasty Potmarks - Cairo Museum' includes:
-Notes on potters signs on pots
-Rubbings from pots at Cairo Museum with temporary register numbers

This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Predynastic pots rubbings'.

Folder titled 'DYNS. XXI - XXX' containing notes on kings of the 21st Dynasty, 22nd Dynasty, 23rd Dynasty, 24th Dynasty, 25th Dynasty, 26th Dynasty, 27th Dynasty, 28th Dynasty, 29th Dynasty and 30th Dynasty.

Material has been split into envelopes as follows:

-Handwritten draft on the history of the 21st to 30th Dynasties, written on diary pages from January to February 1941.

-Handwritten draft on the 24th to the 26th Dynasty, handwritten draft titled 'The Delta Dynasties' on the 21st to 26th Dynasties, and typed draft on the 27th to 30th Dynasties c.1941

-Notes on the 21st Dynasty, Hrihor and Ramesses XII

-Notes on the 22nd Dynasty and Shoshenq I including parts of drafts and copies of inscriptions

-Notes on the 25th Dynasty including notes on inscriptions

-Notes on the 26th Dynasty including notes on inscriptions

-Notes on the 30th Dynasty