Correspondence from Albert Frank Kendrick (Department of Textiles, Victoria & Albert Museum, London) relating to the Victoria & Albert Museum including items in the collection, exhibitions, purchase and sale of items, items belonging to Newberry including a Persian brocade, research enquiries from Newberry including on gloves, reference to textiles from the tomb of Tutankhamun, and the effects of the second world war. Also includes requests for information including about the pomegranate in Egyptian art and draft replies from Newberry, as well as a plain linen shirt from an unknown site in Egypt with enclosed sketch.

Note:
MSS 27/68 is also numbered 317
MSS 27/74 is also numbered A.19

Letter of thanks from Henry W. Kent (Metropolitan Museum, New York).

Letter from Sir Frederic George Kenyon requesting a reference for Arthur Callender.

Correspondence from Neville Langton relating to his research on cats and cylinder seals. Includes notes on cylinders with cat figures and the bast sign.

Correspondence from Lady Iris Lawrence including relating to Newberry's photograph of climbing goats, Newberry putting his name down for the Red Cross Interpretation List for Arabic and a draft reply from Newberry on gardening, plant cuttings an article by Thomas Henry Huxley on Gentians and referring to meeting him in 1887.

Correspondence from Thorold D. Lee (Arthur H. Lee & Sons Ltd., Tapestry Works) including relating to photographs for a paper by Lee on tapestries, and examination of a girdle.

Correspondence from Edward Thurlow Leeds (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) including corrections to Newberry's list of nome signs (1916), relating to relocating material during the war including two predynastic bowls belonging to Newberry, Newberry sending his filing cabinets to the Griffith Institute (1939), damage during World War Two, donation of items by Newberry including Egyptian textiles (including draft reply from Newberry), museum acquisitions and copyright ownership of the Howard Carter material.

Also includes: copy of a letter from Newberry to Leeds on copyright ownership of the Howard Carter material; draft letter from Newberry on work during World War Two and gifting books to the Griffith Institute; draft letter from Newberry on donating Persian tiles to the Ashmolean Museum.

Correspondence from Gustave Lefebure (Service des Antiquités, Egypt) arranging to meet Newberry in Egypt.

Correspondence from George Francis Legge including news from Egypt and reference to James Henry Breasted, T. Eric Peet, and Henri Édouard Naville.

Note:
MSS 29/8 is also numbered A.348
MSS 29/9 is also numbered A.345
MSS 29/10 is also numbered A.346

Correspondence from J. Lister inviting Newberry to events at the Technical Institute, Tunbridge Wells.

Letter from Marie Little (Sister of Dora Little) sending birthday greetings.

Includes smaller letter in an envelope wishing Newberry a happy birthday.

Letter from Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) requesting information.

Correspondence from S.E. Loxton relating to Newberry's presidency of the Vesey Club.

Document relating to the sale of land at Binfield, Berkshire by Humfrey Newbery, Francis Broughton, Richard Radish and William Hawthorne to Alexander Hayes, 1629.

Folder titled by John Harris 'PRESS CUTTINGS' with newspaper cuttings glued or fastened on to each page.

Newpaper cuttings are on a range of topics relating to ancient Egypt and Egyptology including congresses taking place, exhibitions such as the exhibition of Egyptian Art at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, book reviews, news relating to Percy Newberry, current research, obituaries, Sudan, Libya and the Libyan Desert.

This series includes material created by Newberry and material related to Newberry created by others. It includes newspaper cuttings, letter lists, diary notes, photographs, and material relating to Newberry's genealogical research.

This series also includes Newberry's excavation diary during his work for Lord Northampton from 1898 to 1899.

Folder containing 3 black and white group photographs which include Percy Newberry, and all appear to have been taken in Egypt.

Photographs include the following information:

• A note on the back suggests it was taken in the 1920s and names Abu Bakr, Hermann Grapow, Percy Newberry, Georg Steindorff, Hermann Junker and Selim Hassan.
• The back of the photograph is date stamped 17 January 1930, and a note reads 'A Benni Hassane' [at Beni Hasan].
• Note on the back of the photograph suggests that it was taken at Cairo University in the 1920s and lists the people seated left to right as: 1. [?], 2. [?], 3. Selim Hassan 4. Newberry 5. [?] 6. Junker 7. Vikentiev 8. Henri? Frankfort 9. [?] and in the front row 1. Baudouin? Van de Walle, 2. [?], 3. [?].

Nina de Davies' inked tracing of scenes with a leopard attacking an ibex and a hound attacking a bull, from a panel from the back of box (no. 551), found in the Annex, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Nina de Davies' annotated drawing of a scene with Tutankhamun seated on a chair holding an armed bow shooting fish and fowl, with Ankhesenamun squatting on a cushion at King's feet, on a panel from the front of box (no. 551), found in the Annex, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Probably used for Davies tracing, see Carter MSS i.G.44C.

Incomplete second copy of My Early Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1968) [preface and pp. 1-27].

Typescript, annotated by Gardiner himself.

Second copy of My Working Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1962).

It includes an undated letter from Robert Hamilton to Mrs de Garis Davies, indicating he is returning the work after reading it and thanking her for lending it to him.

Nina de Davies' tracing of a scene with Tutankhamun seated on a chair holding an armed bow shooting fish and fowl, with Ankhesenamun squatting on a cushion at King's feet, on a panel from the front of box (no. 551), found in the Annex, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Probably traced from Davies drawing, see Carter MSS i.G.44B.

• Thebes, private tombs: one incomplete set of Series T photographs [15 boxes] and a few duplicate photographs of the same [2 boxes], there are also some glass negatives of some of the same [1 box]
• Thebes, Valley of the Kings, royal tombs: an incomplete set of photographs [1 box]
• Thebes. Valley of the Queens, the tomb of Nefertari (QV 66), photographs [1 folder, in the same box as Valley of the Kings]
• Deir el-Bahari (Deir el-Bahri), Temple of Hatshepsut, incomplete set of photographs [1 box]

Maps from various sources.

Photographs of Nubian Temples made during Breasted's expedition, 1905-6. Photostats of temple plans annotated with Chicago, Oriental Institute photograph numbers.