Letter from Henry Ogg Forbes (The Free Public Museums, Liverpool) responding to an enquiry by Newberry on references to the geology of Egypt.

Note:
This letter is also numbered 262

Letter from Eliot Foote thanking Newberry for sending a pamphlet and relating to travel in Egypt.

Note:
This letter is also numbered A.28

Letter of thanks from Foad Boghdady, Cairo Museum.

Folder titled 'Flora - miscellaneous; Egyptian Gardens' containing two handbound notebooks titled 'Flora - Miscellaneous' and 'Egyptian Gardens'.

Notebook titled 'Flora - Miscellaneous' contains notes, tracings and drawings relating to Egyptian flora including on agriculture, storing of grain, labdanum and its collection, cistus, cypress, gossypium, and cinammon. Also includes handwritten draft on the pomegranate, c.1947.

Notebook titled 'Egyptian Gardens' contains material relating to Egyptian gardens including:

-Notes on Methen's garden and orchard

-Cuttings of inscription relating to and depictions of gardens

-Drawing of a myrrh tree from a bas-relief in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari

-Photograph of the Libyan or Tehenu palette (Cairo Museum, CG 14238, JE 27434)

-Typed notes on gardening in Egypt, the pomegranate and cultivated olive trees

-Postcard showing Tutankhamen and his Queen in a garden

-Newspaper cutting of Newberry, Percy, 'Gardening 6000 Years Ago' in The Gardeners' Chronicle, no.678, 23 December 1899.

This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Flora and Fauna 1'.

Letter from Ralph Flenley relating to the publication of his book on the Welsh Marches.

Letter from Miss R. Fleming (Royal Anthropological Institute) accepting Newberry's offer to review an article. Letter from Newberry relating to his identification of two scarabs found in Wiltshire.

Letter from Owen Fleming relating to Ightham village.

Howard Carter's manuscript corrections for the draft or proofs of Carnarvon, Earl of and Howard Carter (eds) 1912. Five years' explorations at Thebes: a record of work done 1907-1911 (OEB 136376).

Letter from Clarence S. Fisher relating to purchasing Newberry's dahabiyeh.

Correspondence from Cecil Mallaby Firth including asking Newberry to purchase an amethyst bead, on the effect of the war on the relationship between Great Britain and France, Pierre Lacau and the exploitation of Egyptian antiquities by foreign museums. Also includes letter written from Saqqara thanking Newberry for a plan.

MSS 15/65 also includes some sums on the back.

First three chapters of a projected book titled "Ancient Egypt":

• I The discovery of Ancient Egypt
• II Man before History
• III The Historic Period

First revise of an article by J. de Zwaan, 'The Meaning of the Leyden Graeco-Demotic Papyrus Anast. 65', in Journal of Theological Studies 6 (1905), 418-424.

Four First Day Covers, all issued on 24 November 2022, part of the Special Stamp Issue 'Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. The insert is the same for all four items, and the card's text briefly describes the tomb's discovery.

• See https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/tutankhamun (accessed 19-06-2023, the first-day covers are no longer available).
• TAA iii.51.3.1.1
  • First Day Cover for the main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb, images supplied by Araldo De Luca, hand-stamped with Tutankhamun's cartouches, comprises one envelope with eight stamps affixed containing one insert with text and images
• TAA iii.51.3.1.2
  • First Day Cover for the main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb, images supplied by Araldo De Luca, hand-stamped with one of the Theban necropolis seal impressions, comprises one envelope with eight stamps affixed containing one insert with text and images
• TAA iii.51.3.1.3
  • First Day Cover for the mini-set of four stamps featuring black and white photographs, including three Harry Burton photographs supplied by the Griffith Institute, hand-stamped with Tutankhamun's cartouches, comprises one envelope with mini stamp sheet of four stamps affixed containing one insert with text and images
• TAA iii.51.3.1.4
  • First Day Cover for the mini-set of four stamps featuring black and white photographs, including three Harry Burton photographs supplied by the Griffith Institute, with one of the Theban necropolis seal impressions, comprises one envelope with mini stamp sheet of four stamps affixed containing one insert with text and images

2 letters from Firchow, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Firchow.
Černý's participation in Festschrift Grapow, see Firchow, O. (ed.), Ägyptologische Studien (1955) (OEB 158830).

• Harry Burton photographs.
• The photographs have been cut down and mounted onto file cards.
• Originally probably intended for Penelope Fox's book.