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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)

9 pencil sketches:

• top left: man leaning on staff and woman with jar
• top middle: man
• top right: two women, one with a child
• middle left: woman with jar
• middle middle: man sitting
• middle right: woman with child
• bottom left: woman collecting water
• bottom middle: man with pipe
• bottom left: two men.

Watercolour and pencil sketch of Coptic convent near Naqadah:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Coptic Convent - near Negada' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of rock inscriptions at Philae:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Inscribed Rock. Philae.' (ink note).

Pencil drawing of sistrum.

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Finis' (ink note).

• [on label] '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).

Mounted pencil drawing of Mount Sasso Bianco.

Two watercolour and pencil sketches:

• left: Piz Galina.
• right: Cortina with Antelao in the background.

Mounted watercolour sketch of Antelao from below the Crepa.

Monted watercolour of Cristallo seen from across Lago di Landro (Dürrensee).

Two mounted watercolours:

• left: Sasso di Ronch
• right: Pale di San Lucano

Mounted watercolour of unidentified landscape.

Two mounted watercolours:

• left: Castel Pietra
• right: Primiero

Three mounted watercolours:

• upper: the Pelmo from Val Fiorentina
  • [on mount] 'The Pelmo' (pencil note)
• lower left: the Aiguilles of the Schlern
  • [on mount] 'Needles of the Schlern' (pencil note)
• lower right: Silbergasse in Bolzen
  • [on mount] 'Silbergass - Bolzen' (pencil note)

Mounted watercolour and pencil sketches of Sciliar (Schlern).

Mounted watercolour of the Rosengarten.

• [on mount] 'The Rosengarten from Bolzen. 3.30. Am.' (pencil note)

Back cover bound in red leather.

Pencil drawing of woman dancing:

• [on reverse] 'Roman peasant girl dancing the Saltarello. after Pinelli (undelined) ABE (underlined)' (pencil note)

Watercolour of bowl on recto and pencil sketch of outline of bowl on verso:

• [on recto of drawing] '"The Great God Pan" - E. B. Browning. ABE' (pencil note)

Ink drawing of woman sketching with crocodile:

• [on drawing] 'The Larches Westbury-on-Trym Nr. Bristol.' (printed) 'April 20th. 1888. The delights of sketching from Nature, 1000 miles up the Nile.' (ink note)

Ink drawing of man in profile:

• [on drawing] 'Pictorial Biography of A. B. E. (underlined) My first (underlined) Love. No 1.' (ink note)

Ink drawing of bells ringing.

Printed invitation to the Egypt Exploration Fund's Annual General Meeting with pencil drawing of head of Ti pasted on reverse:

• [on mount] 'Ti (underlined) - a priest + landowner of Memphis. Vth Dynasty.' (ink note)

Ink drawing of Sion in Switzerland above beginning of letter:
'April 9th / 88 My own love - I have first verified the addresses on about 200 Reports - + done up a lot of copies of [?]' (in ink)

Two drawings:

• left: pencil sketch of statue of man.
  • [on drawing] 'Archaic Greek torso (male figure) showing extreme development of muscles.' (pencil note)
• right: ink drawing of Greek head.
  • [on drawing] 'This is a rude attempt at a female figure - the "wings" are arms. Archaic Greek head female - circa B. C. 600. curls represented by [drawing of curls] + tresses as ropes. The eye, though face is profile, is always given as in full face - as in Egyptian paintings' (ink notes)

Pencil and watercolour sketch of countryside scene:

• [on the reverse of sketch] 'On the Mole - foot of Box hill. (underlined) Unfinished rough sketch 1856. (underlined)' (pencil note)

Undated handwritten letter:
'I really can't quite give thee the [?] of my cold. I think I wish the L[?] one. I took a fresh one the day after thou left - + I have had a [?], more or less, since then. Just now there seems an interlude - as between the rain storms. Why don't you buy an old Culloden sword with a basket hilt? It wd be a charming possession. Owl will make this a short letter, as it has to write an elaborate one (with sketches) to the engraver, about the illustrations to the pamphlet, in wh she is much interested.
M. Narville[?] has sent me some very nice photographs - + he tells me that Mr MacGregor has made excellent ones. I have written to ask for copies. I mean it to be a very engaging pamphlet. My own, own one, I wish I was with thee on thy birthday. I do want thee so very very much - Poo' owl - so
last + long without its Baby. I get quite hipped + out of spirits, owing to dull weather, rain, + no Baby.
Thine own Owl (underlined)' (ink)

Ink drawing of landscape with buildings and mountains:

• [on verso of drawing] 'Sketch - ??? I forget where - Griding[?] Nag[?] or Tyrol. (underlined) ABE' (pencil note)

Drawing of tree with poem:
'What shall I call thee - Song bird? Sweetheart mine?
How shall I woo thee?... If, in truth I dare
To cast my shadow on that path of thine;
To braid my silver with thy golden hair.

How shall I woo thee? - Stretching out my hands
As elms in spring stretch forth their boughs to greet
Wing'd wanderers from sunny far-off lands?
Ah, seek some younger, fresher shade, my sweet!

Thy nest should be a bow'r of blossoms rare;
Thy shade should be all perfumed, + thy lay
Poured forth upon the summer-spicèd air
Of some soft chime, when it is always May!

Alas! my boughs are tempest-toss'd + shorn;
My roots have struck the rock - my leaves are shed;
Shall winter mate with spring, or eve with morn?
Despair with hope? The living with the dead?

Yet come, if thou wilt! For well-nigh due
In God's great miracle, when earth + sky,
Mountain, + moon, + copse their youth renew -
And if the daisies, dearest, why not I?

I wak'd last night from dreams of spring, + lo!
The first dear crocus shows its head today;
And yonder limes are crimsoned with the glow
Of the imprison'd summer! Come away!

Away, dear lover, to meet + greet the spring!
Unfold, ye buds! Laugh out in lead, ye trees!
Come, perfum'd winds, your summer sweetness bring,
From tropic isles beyond the Western seas!

Sing, sing, ye thrushes! To our Northern Shore
Dear swallows, from the purple East fly fast!
Darkness, + doubt, + winter are no more -
The eternal youth of Hope is mine at last!
A.B.E.
Oct. 1887 - Jany. 1888 (underlined)' (ink note)