Howard Carter's hand-drafted map of the lateral branch of Wâdi Qubbânet el-Qirûd, called 'Valley B', with positions of monuments.

Howard Carter's manuscript records, including transcriptions, for graffiti from Wadi el-Gharabi. Carter 'F', nos. 25-26.

Work and excavations in Thebes:

• royal tombs
• private tombs
• caches
• graffiti
• inscriptions
• ostraca
• maps and plans
• excavations
• notes and records

Howard Carter's brief manuscript notes for El Borgâia (Borgaia) ("K. 490"), West Bank, Middle Egypt.

Howard Carter's brief manuscript notes for Tehna el Gebel (Tihna el-Gebel; Ṭihna; Tēnis; Tenis; Acōris; Acoris) ("K. 493"), East Bank, Middle Egypt.

Howard Carter's brief manuscript notes for Sheikh Hasan (El Sheikh Hasan) ("K. 520"), East Bank, Middle Egypt.

Howard Carter's brief manuscript notes for Sharûna (Sharuna; Shârûna; El-Kôm El-Aḥmar Sawâris; El-Kom El-Ahmar Sawaris) ("K. 544"), East Bank, Middle Egypt.

Howard Carter's brief manuscript notes for El Hîba (el-Hiba; Akhyronpolis ?) ("K. 568), East Bank, Middle Egypt.

Howard Carter's brief manuscript notes for Deshâsha (Deshasha) ("K. 587"), West Bank, Middle Egypt.

Howard Carter's sketch map for the Qau el-Qebîa area, with sites plotted between El Hamamia (northernmost) to El Nawaura (southernmost).

Howard Carter's sketch map for the Tuna el Gebel (Tûna el Gebel) and Mallawi area, with sites plotted between Nazlet Tuna (northernmost) to Kom el Ahmar (southernmost).

Howard Carter's brief manuscript note with the names of a few sites around Tuna (Tuna el Gebel) and Balansura, Middle Egypt.

Howard Carter's photographs of the Carnarvon-Carter excavations at Tell el-Balamūn, in 1913.

Carter MSS iv.3-20
18 lined pages with affixed photographs accompanied by manuscript captions. Carter numbered these as plates ii-xviii to accompany his report, see Carter MSS iv.2.

Carter MSS iv.21-50
30 loose photographs, including some duplicates of photographs in Carter MSS iv.3-20.

Howard Carter's photographs, numbered 1 and 2 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (1) View of Tell el Balamūn from the marshes in the north
• (2) View of Carter's camp
  For other views of the camp, see Carter MSS iv.42-44.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 26 and 27 with manuscript captions, finds from surface of site and during excavations, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (26) Scarabs, numbered 1-16.
• (27) Stone and copper weights, numbered 1-10.

Howard Carter's miscellaneous records, including his collected notes on ancient weights and measures.

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]
    • Three Milk White Camels
    • The Finding of the Tomb of Amenophis the First
    • The Cemetery of the Queens'

Howard Carter's autobiography, drafts, manuscript and annotated typescript, with the following section/chapter headings:

• The Beginning
  • 7 manuscript pages
  • Handwriting not identified, edited and annotated by Carter, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • Original title "An Autobiographical Preface" is crossed through
  • Incorporated into the following typescript
• An Autobiographical Sketch
  • 72 pages, annotated typescript and manuscript
  • 61 typescript pages, numbered 1-61, edited and annotated by Carter, most pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • 11 manuscript pages, not numbered, notes to typescript pages
  • Original title "An Autobiographical Preface", "Preface" is crossed through and replaced by "Sketch"
  • Incorporated into the preceding manuscript

Howard Carter's autobiography, draft typescript and manuscript with the following section/chapter headings:

• A Sketch of Thebes
  • 15 pages, annotated typescript, all pages, except title page, are crossed through (cancelled)
  • 1 section/chapter title page
  • 14 typescript pages, numbered 31-44
• The Theban Necropolis
  • 15 pages, annotated typescript, all pages, except title page, are crossed through (cancelled)
  • 1 section/chapter title page
  • 14 typescript pages, numbered 45-58
• A Sketch of Thebes
  • 8 pages, annotated manuscript, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • Carter's manuscript used for the preparation of the preceding typescripts

Howard Carter's autobiography, draft typescript, a notebook containing a draft manuscript, and an annotated newspaper cutting. The typescript has the following section/chapter headings:

• El-Bab El-Hosân. "The Tomb of the Horse"
  • 31 pages, annotated typescript, most pages, except title page, are crossed through (cancelled)
  • 1 section/chapter title page, numbered here as [137]
  • 30 typescript pages, numbered [138]-166 (NB Carter annotated the first pages in this section "1-8", the page numbers [138]-[145] were assigned in Griffith Institute)
• The Rat and the Snake: Being a tale from the coffee hearth
  • 5 pages, annotated typescript, none of the pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • Typescript unfinished or incomplete
  • Carter annotated the page numbers "1-5"
• Sketch V [Summer life in Egypt]
  • Notebook containing draft manuscript ("LUDGATE" | EXERCISE BOOK)
  • 6 pages, draft manuscript, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
• [Summer life in Egypt]
  • 3 loose pages, draft manuscript, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • Carter annotated the page numbers "1-3"
  • Draft manuscript used for the preparation of part of the preceding draft manuscript in the notebook

Howard Carter's autobiography, draft typescript and draft manuscript, with the following headings:

• The Cemetery of the Queens
  • 23 pages, annotated typescript, none of the pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • 1 section/chapter title page
  • 22 typescript pages, numbered 215-236
  • [Sketch XII]
• January 1938 - A Sketch
  • 3 pages, annotated manuscript, none of the pages are crossed through (cancelled)
  • No page numbering
  • Carter's description of King Farouk's marriage to Safinaz Zulficar (after Queen Farida) on 10 January 1938, and the festivities celebrating their marriage

Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook containing manuscript for Sketches III-VII, also some enclosures including loose manuscript notes, a typewritten note, and a newspaper cutting.

• 76 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
• Carter's annotated page numbers, "73" to "149"
• Sketch III - Thebes
  • Pages 73-86
  • Contains four subsections, I to IV
• Sketch IV - The Tomb of the Horse
  • Pages 87-111
  • Contains three subsections, I to III
• Sketch V. Summer life and a Tale from the Coffee-hearth
  • Pages 112-121
  • Contains one subsection, "The Rat and the Snake"
• Sketch VI. Three Milk White Camels
  • Pages 122-141
• Sketch VII. A Fortuitous Discovery
  • Pages 142-149

Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook with enclosed notes, containing Carter's annotated manuscript recording his archaeological training with Sir W. M. F. Petrie

• 43 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
• Carter's annotated page numbers, "28"-"70"
• All pages are crossed through (cancelled)
• Earlier draft of Carter MSS vi.2.9 (pages 36-72): [Sketch II: An Account of Myself]

Howard Carter's annotated typewritten lecture notes on 'The Contribution of Ancient Egypt to Progress of the World', part of Carter's records on glass.
Sections titled:

• The Calender
• Glass
• Linen weaving
• Liturgical vestments
• The Crosier
• The Wedding Ring

Manuscript letter from R. Bethell, dated 27 May 1921, to Howard Carter, regarding Carter's proposed article on glass (see Carter MSS vi.5.3), part of Carter's records on glass.

An article, annotated by Carter, titled 'Egypt Calls' by Sir Evelyn Wrench and published in The Spectator, 6 September 1935, page 370, in which Wrench mentions his encounter with Howard Carter at Luxor.

Howard Carter's manuscript draft(s) for a publication or lecture, or perhaps for his intended autobiography.
The draft contains the following headings:

• The District now known as Medinet Habou
• Notes Episodes to introduce [perhaps related to autobiography?]
• Luxor
• Ramesseum
• The temple of Qurna

Howard Carter's annotated draft typescript, for an article titled 'Notes. Egyptian Art - Origin, History, Intention and Interpretation', not published and no mention of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Carter numbered most of the pages: "1" to "29"
• The typescript contains the following headings:
  • [title page] Notes. Egyptian Art - Origin, History, Intention and Interpretation
  • Introductory
  • Origin
  • Generation
  • Deterioration
  • History
  • The Art of the Middle Kingdom, 2160 - 1780 B.C.
  • The Art of the New Empire, First and Second Period - 1580-1350-1150 B.C.
  • Intention
  • Interpretation. Cause of certain effects in delineation
  • Renaissance

Howard Carter's album of watercolours:

• Containing 16 pages with 30 watercolour illustrations
• Birds and animals and their hieroglyphic equivalents
• Full catalogue with descriptions for each watercolour, see online publication weblinks below