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• Album of drawings and watercolours made during Amelia Edwards's visit to the Dolomites.
• Album of drawings and watercolours made during her visit to Egypt in 1873-4.
• Album with 26 pencil sketches and one watercolour titled 'Small Egyptian Scraps, 1874', made during same visit to Egypt.
• Album, notebook, packet containing an assortment of drawings, letters, and notes, another packet contains copies of deeds and accounts issued following her death.
• Two watercolours of the temples on Philae island, assumed to have been painted by A. Edwards.
• First edition of Amelia B. Edwards, Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (1891); Kate Griffith's (née Bradbury) copy, with handwritten dedication to ‘My Katie - Novr. 1891 - A.B.E’.

Nine mounted pencil sketches:

• top left: man on donkey
• top middle: shaduf
  • [on mount] 'The Shadoof' (ink note)
• top right: man on donkey
• middle left: man
• middle middle: Damascus Gate, Cairo
  • [on mount] 'The Bab en Nasr - or Damascus Gate. Cairo' (ink note)
• middle right: man
• bottom left: two camels
• bottom middle: man
• bottom right: camel, man and three women with water jars
  • [on mount] 'Going to fetch water from the Nile' (ink note)

Pencil sketch of tombs:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Arab tombs near Siout' (ink note)

Three mounted pencil and watercolour sketches:

• top: sunset
  • [on mount] 'Sunset (near Magada)' (ink note)
• middle: dahabiya on the Nile
  • [on mount] 'Kasr es Syad & Gebel Tookh' (ink note)
• bottom: dahabiya on the Nile
  • [on mount] 'Near Siout' (ink note)

Boat on the Nile at Gebel Abu Foda, Middle Egypt:

• mounted
• watercolour
• [on mount] 'Gebel Aboofayda. Middle Egypt.' (ink note)

5 mounted pencil sketches: 4 sketches of camels in various poses; bottom sketch depicts the remains of a boat.

Market boat:

• mounted
• watercolour
• [on mount] 'Market Boat. Minieh' (ink note)

Two dahabiya boats at Roda:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount] 'Native Dahabeeyahs. Roda' (ink note)

Five mounted pencil sketches:

• top: Head of Ti
  • [on mount] 'Head of Ti. (a statue of IVth Dynasty in the Boolak Museum.) B.C. 4235.' (ink note)
• middle left: water seller
  • [on mount] 'Water seller of Cairo' (ink note)
• middle middle: donkeys
  • [on sketch] 'Cairo donkeys' (pencil note)
• middle right: water sellers
  • [on mount] 'Water sellers' (ink note)
• bottom: Sheik Salîm, Farshut, with further additions in ink
  • [on mount] 'Sheyk Saleem. (Farshoot)' (ink note)

Five mounted pencil or pencil and wash sketches:

• top: Dahibya
  • [on mount] 'native boat' (ink note)
• middle left: Sheik Cotton
  • [on mount] 'Holy Sheyk Cotton' (ink note)
• middle middle: a shaduf
  • [on mount] 'The Shadoof.' (ink note)
• middle right: Mehemet Ali
  • [on mount] 'Mehemet Ali.' (ink note)
• bottom: woman collecting water.

Pencil and watercolour sketch of Cairo mosque:

• mounted
• [on mount, top] 'Egyptian Scraps: 1874' (ink note)
• [on mount] 'In the name of The Prophet - Cakes!" Moskee. Cairo.' (ink note)

This group consists of two parts:

• Edwards MSS 1.1-311
  • notebook with annotation on the cover: 'Notes & Extracts' (ink note)
  • 311 numbered ruled pages, with some loose and affixed items
  • includes a range of handwritten and printed material, watercolours and drawings
• Edwards MSS 1.312-347
  • 1 package containing 36 loose numbered items
  • ephemera, mixed media, including handwritten notes, letters, sketches, rubbings, poems, newspaper cutting etc.

Front end paper with pasted note:

• 'This volume was re-bound through the generosity of AEMES (Ancient Egypt & Middle East Society, Lincolnshire), Manchester Ancient Egypt Society and the Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt (Derbyshire) in August 2002' (printed).

Leather binding created in 2002.

Watercolour in its original mount, showing the temples on Philae Island, viewed from the north-west.

• The watercolour is captioned on the mount, once below the watercolour and again on the verso. The captions are both the same but are written in two different hands: "Philæ from the North."
• Although the watercolour is not signed, it was most certainly painted by Amelia A. B. Edwards.

Watercolour in its original mount, the temples on Philae Island, viewed from the south. Although the watercolour is not signed or annotated, it was most certainly painted by Amelia A. B. Edwards.

Back cover with green leather binding.

Pencil drawing of Horus from Abu Simbel:

• mounted
• [on drawing] 'Ensign dividing two large pictures on West wall of painted Chamber' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Ensign of Horus Araëris - library - Aboo Simbel' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of sistrum at Abu Simbel:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Bas relief of Sistrum. Temple of Hathor Aboo Simbel.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of shrine of arm of Osiris:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Shrine of arm of Osiris: Osiris chamber - Philae.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of resurrection of Osiris at Philae:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Resurrection of Osiris - Osiris chamber. Philae' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of detail of cornice at Abu Simbel:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Cornice of library adjoining Gt Temple. Aboo Simbel' (pencil note)