27 letters from Sauneron to Černý. 2 letters from Sauneron to Marie Černý, 1 letter (with multiple drafts) from Marie Černý to Sauneron. Professional and personal matters:
Sauneron's research and news of research-based travelling
Egyptian philology, palaeography
studies in hieratic
book exchange and purchases
occasional news of family Marie Černý consulting Sauneron regarding posthumous publications of J. Černý, as well as the use of Černý's notebooks.
Notes, photographs, squeezes, correspondence, and offprints. Contain, amongst others, references to Assyriological, Greek, Cypriot, and Egyptological material. Includes notes made by Petrie which were with Sayce at the time of his death.
1 letter from Scharff, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Scharff. Scharff sent Černý a copy of his publication on the cult of Osiris (probably Scharff, A., Die Ausbreitung des Osiriskultes in der Frühzeit und während des Alten Reiches (1948) (OEB 1516)).
1 letter from Schlott. Cubit-measure, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 31.12.22.2 - TopBib ii2.300, and Schlott's work on cubit-measures (see Schlott, A., Die Ausmasse Ägyptens nach altägyptischen Texten (1969) (OEB 13771)).
2 letters from Schneider. Consultation regarding consanguineous marriages and kinship in ancient Egypt, with reference to Černý, J., 'Consanguineous Marriages in Pharaonic Egypt', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 40 (1954), 23-9 (OEB 4042).
6 letters from Schott, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Schott. Book and off-print exchange and professional matters; congratulations on Černý's seventieth birthday.
(a) Approximately 3,500 negatives recording scenes from private tombs at Thebes, accompanied by a concordance in five notebooks . (b) There are also several hundred photographs which were received in exchange with the Abteilung Ägyptologie, Trier. (c) Microfilm roll with copies of the negatives.
4 letters from Schubert, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Schubert. Černý's visit to Yale University in 1954, during his time as Visiting Professor at Brown University.
1 death announcement for Ursula Schweitzer, 1 carbon copy of a condolence letter sent by Černý to the Schweitzer family, 1 letter of acknowledgement from the Schweitzer family to Černý.
6 letters from Scott, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Scott.
Deir el-Medîna material in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, finds relating to the workman Khabekhnet and his family (Thebes, TT 2, TopBib i2.6-9)
(a) 20 folders containing handwritten notes, pencil drawings, negatives, photographs, and postcards of furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun (= MSS 1-20) (1935). (b) 18 folders containing notes, drawings, negatives and photographs of thrones, chairs, stools and footstools mainly from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (1935) and the British Museum in London (1936), as well as from other collections, and material gathered from publications; 1 index card box with Segal's reference notes for his furniture records; and letter from T. G. H. James to M. Eaton-Krauss regarding Segal correspondence in the British Museum along with photocopies of the letters.
10 letters from Barbara Sewell, Assistant Secretary, Griffith Institute. Departmental matters at the Griffith Institute, which Sewell reported to Černý during his absences, contents of correspondence that arrived when Černý was outside Oxford; personal matters.
5 letters from Shore to Černý. 1 letter from Shore to Marie Černý, 1 draft of a letter from Marie Černý to Shore. Studies in Coptic etymologies, and Demotic studies; finds from Deir el-Medîna. Shore exchange with Marie Černý - off-prints of J. Černý obituaries.
8 letters from Simpson, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Simpson. 2 letters exchanged between Černý and C. Cann (Queen's College) regarding Simpson's proposed stay in Oxford. Simpson negotiating a PhD position at Oxford, although Simpson eventually decided to do his PhD in the United States; Simpson's research into Egyptian accounts and accounting, as well as a reference to the Reisner papyri; Simpson published extensively on the latter, see Simpson, W. K., Papyrus Reisner I: The Records of a Building Project in the Reign of Sesostris I (1963) (OEB 10466), and Simpson, W. K., Papyrus Reisner II: Accounts of the dockyard workshop at This in the reign of Sesostris I (1965) (OEB 11529).
8 letters from H. S. Smith, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to H. S. Smith. 4 letters exchanged between Černý and Brian Downs (1893-1984), Master of Christ's College, regarding H. S. Smith's application for the Lady Wallis Budge Fellowship in Cambridge. H. S. Smith's professional development and research work; some notes Smith prepared for Černý on Coptic and Coptic etymologies; book exchange. In 1964, Smith discussed with Černý the plan for the A. H. Gardiner library bequest; which was shared between the Griffith Institute, Oxford, University College, London, Cambridge University and Liverpool University.
