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.

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)

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 necropolis of Abydos and Kom es Sultan:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Necropolis of Abydus and Kom es Sultan' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of Coptic convent near Naqadah:

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

Watercolour and pencil sketch of remains of structure and dahabiyyas:

• mounted
• [on sketch] 'Near Siout. Jany 1 1874' (painted note)
• [on mount] 'Waterwheel. Siout' (ink note).

Nine pencil sketches:

• top left: person with staff
• top middle: man sitting and smoking
  • [on mount] 'Ali, the Nubian.' (ink note)
• top right: veiled woman with jars
• middle left: head of man
  • [on mount] 'Riskalli' (ink note)
• middle middle: group of men with boat near Manfalut
  • [on mount] 'Group of Natives (waiting for the Ferry) Manfaloot' (ink note)
• middle right: Man sitting
  • [on mount] 'Riskalli' (ink note)
• bottom left: Reïs Hassan
  • [on mount] 'Reïs Hassan' (ink note)
• bottom middle: man reclining on ?carved block
• bottom right: man standing
  • [on mount] 'Salame' (ink note).

Nine sketches:

• top left: pencil sketch of donkey
• top middle: pencil sketch of mountains above Denderah
  • [on mount] 'Mountains above Denderah.' (ink note)
• top right: pencil sketch of man wading
• middle left: pencil sketch of two figures
• middle middle: pencil sketch of three men at Beni Suef
  • [on sketch] 'Benisouf' (pencil note)
• middle right: pencil sketch of seated figure
• bottom left: pencil sketch of male figure standing
  • [on mount] 'Georgi Hassan' (ink note)
• bottom middle: pencil and watercolour sketch of dahabiyyas
  • [on mount] 'Nerghaileh. W. Bank.' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of hypostyle hall at Karnak:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Hypostyle Hall. Karnac. Looking East.'

Watercolour and pencil sketch of Hypostyle Hall at Karnak:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Hypostyle Hall. Karnak. Looking West.' (ink note).

Two images:

• upper: watercolour of the mountains above Thebes
  • [on mount] 'Mountain range above Luxor. East Bank.' (ink note)
• lower: clipping with engraving of landscape with caption: 'Mansanga, looking east from Moramballa Marsh'
  • [on clipping] Extraordinary resemblance to mountain range near Thebes, R. Bank. See sketch by ABE. S. East Africa. On the river [illegible], flowing out of Lake Nyassa, + into the Zambesi. This is near the mouth of the [illegible].' (pencil note).

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 with two men and camel in foreground and remains of structure in the background.

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Bargaining for a Camel. Assouan.' (ink note).

Four pencil sketches:

• top centre: two men with staffs; one standing, one sitting
• middle left: man standing
• middle middle: five men sitting and standing
• middle right: man standing
• bottom: three men and two camels.

Watercolour and pencil sketch of palace gateway, Medinet Habu:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Palace Gateway: Medinet Haboot.' (ink note).

Pencil and watercolour sketch of dahabiyya near Aswan:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Native Boat. Assouan.' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of landing place at Aswan:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Assouan. (The traders landing place.)' (ink note).

Two pencil and watercolour sketches:

• upper: building next to river
  • [on mount] 'Ruins of Coptic Convent. (near Philae.)'
• lower: structure with two male figures
  • [on sketch] 'Soudan traders at Manhatta. Jan 21.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] 'Trader's Camp: Manhatta.' (ink note).

Pencil and watercolour sketch of two camels.

Watercolour and pencil sketch of rock inscriptions at Philae:

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

Pencil drawing with Christian altar in the first hypostyle hall at Philae temple complex:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Early Christian Shrine. Temple of Isis. (Philae)' (ink note).

Nine mounted pencil sketches:

• top left: seated male figure
• top middle: male figure from behind
  • [on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
• top right: male head
• middle left: head of woman
  • [on mount] 'Woman of Derr' (ink note)
• middle middle: male figures
  • [on mount] 'Cataract Nubians. (Shellalee)' (ink note)
• middle right: head of woman
  • [on mount] 'Woman of Derr' (ink note)
• bottom left: standing male figure
• bottom middle: male figure
  • [on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
• bottom right: standing male figure.

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)

Seven pencil sketches:

• top left: dahabiyya
• top middle: five figures
• top right: standing male figure
• middle: skeleton of camel
  • [on sketch] 'In the Desert. March 11th 1874' (in pencil)
  • [on mount] 'Skeleton of a Camel.' (ink note)
• bottom left: standing male figure
  • [on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
• bottom middle: three male figures
  • [on mount] 'Cataract Nubians.' (ink note)
• bottom right: reclining male figure
  • [on mount] 'Cataract Nubian' (ink note).

Pencil sketch of woman and child:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Nubian woman & child (Maharrakeh)' (ink note).