Diary kept from 4 May 1922 to 20 October 1926 by the wife of the British archaeologist and photographer Harry Burton (1879-1940). The diary contains detailed daily entries recording social engagements and memorable events, including the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter’s team, of which her husband was a member. The diary details her life and travels with her husband at home in Florence, their stays in Egypt (especially Luxor, but also Cairo), the trip they made across the US and to Hollywood in 1924, and various holidays in Europe (London, Salzburg, St. Moritz, etc.), as well as trips to friends in Italy. Lined account book, 400 pages, 8vo (179 x 110 x 28 mm).

A waterwheel, or sakia [sakieh], beneath a Rhamnus tree (a species of buckthorn), at Bilbeis:
-watercolour
-mounted
-35.4 x 25.7 cm
-[on mount] 'Water wheel at Belbies under a large Rhammas Tree.' (ink note)
-[on mount] encircled '1' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] 'Water wheel at Belbeis, under a large Rhamnus Tree. / On the S. side of the village. / 22nd January 1843.' (pencil note)

View from within the ruins of Tell el-Yahudiya (Leontopolis):
-watercolour with pencil details
-mounted
-35.6 x 26.1 cm
-[on mount] 'Ruins of Tel Euhudicah, looking Westward.' (ink note)
-[on mount] encircled '14' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] 'Ruins of Tel Juhudieah / from the summit looking to the Westward. / 27th Feb 1843.' (pencil note)

Portrait of a Bedouin sheikh with a gun and a sword:
-watercolour
-mounted
-17.6 x 25.6 cm
-[on recto of watercolour] '28th Dec. 1842' (pencil note)
-[on mount] 'Bedamee. Sheikh Havsein. Tûree.' (ink note)
-[on mount] encircled '17' (pencil note)

Portrait of a young woman holding two cockerels(?) [unfinished], the women is wearing a brown galabiya, a long white and red headscarf, earring, a double-stranded bead necklace, and three bracelets, Egypt:
-watercolour with pencil details
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 019
-17.6 x 25.5 cm
-[on mount] encircled '20' (pencil note)

Pompey's Pillar at Alexandria:
-unfinished watercolour with pencil details
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 027
-17.7 x 25.8 cm
-[on mount] 'Pompeys Pillar Alexandria.' (ink note)
-[on mount] encircled '28' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] 'Pompeys pillar, Alexandria. / 20th Nov. 1842. / Height 99ft. Capital 10ft. Shaft 60ft. / Angle of the pedestal N[?]. 22 E.' (pencil note)

Common quail at Salhieh (Salhiya):
-watercolour
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 030 and Lloyd MSS 031
-17.4 x 12.1 cm
-[on mount] encircled '29' [9 faded] (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] 'Desert Partridge. / Rock Partridge / Gulla Arab. / 'Salhiah. 4th Feb. 1843.'

Forecourt of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak; view of the standing column of Taharqa with the entrance to the Second Pylon and Hypostyle beyond:
-watercolour
-mounted
-24.9 x 34.9 cm
-[on mount] 'Western Entrance of the Great Hypostyle Hall, / from the Court, Karnac.' (ink note)
-[on mount] '45' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] 'Western Entrance of the Great Hypostyle Hall, / from the Court. Karnac. / 1st July 1843.' (pencil note)

Columns in the Hypostyle of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
-watercolour
-mounted
-25.9 x 35.5 cm
-[on mount] 'Interior of the Great Hypostile, Karnac, looking N.' (ink note)
-[on mount] '46' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] 'Interior of the Great Hypostyle Karnac. / Looking N. / 11th June 1843.' (pencil note)

Columns in the Pillared Hall of the Festival Temple (Akhmenu) in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
-unfinished watercolour with pencil details
-mounted
-35.5 x 25.4 cm
-[on mount] 'The Colonade of Reversed Capitals in the palace of Thothmes 3rd' (ink note)
-[on mount] '50' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] not legible (pencil note)

The young princess Neferubiti, daughter of Tuthmosis I and Queen Ahmosi, wearing a side-lock and diadem and carrying a lotus-flower, from Room X preceding the Sanctuary in the Great Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari:
-pencil drawing
-mounted
-25 x 34.9 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Sotennofrä. / Temple of Assasief / Thebes. 27th July 1843.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] encircled '1' (pencil note)
-[on verso of drawing] 'Sotennofrä the daughter of Thothmes the first. / from a high relief in the temple of Assasief. / Thebes. 27th July 1843.' (pencil note)
-[on verso of drawing] 11 lines of text <difficult to read - not transcribed here> (pencil note)

Amenhotep III seated in a kiosk, from a scene in the tomb of Khaemhet (TT 57), temp. Amenhotep III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
-pencil drawing
-mounted
-24.8 x 34.9 cm
-[on mount] '5' (pencil note)

The upper part of Seti I, detail from a battle scene showing the king mounting his chariot and dragging captives and Hittite chariots, on the North side of the exterior wall of the Hypostyle in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
-pencil drawing
-mounted
-35.3 x 26 cm
-[on mount] 'Oseirei or Menephkak 1st Great Hypostile Karnac.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] '15' (pencil note)
-[on verso of drawing] 'Osirei, or Menephthah 1st / From the large bas reliefs on the / N part of the Great Hypostyle. Karnac. / 13th May. 1843.' (pencil note)

Scribes counting the hands and phalli of slain Libyan enemies, from a battle-scene in the Second Court of the Great Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu:
-pencil drawing
-mounted
-34.9 x 25 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Medinet Abu. / 5th Sept 1843.' (pencil)
-[on mount] '19' (pencil note)

Three Palestinian name-rings for Yad Hemmelek, Adar and Megiddo, detail from a scene depicting Sesonchis I (unfinished), with ka, smiting Asiatics before Amun and Waset, both holding Palestinian name-rings, on the exterior (South) face of the Portico of the Bubastides in the precinct of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
-pencil drawing
-mounted
-35.5 x 26 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Judahmalek - Ashtaroth - Megiddo' (pencil note)
-[on mount] '23' (pencil note)
-[on verso of drawing] 'From the Bas-relief of the prisoners which Ammon-Ra / delivers to Senischah, on the S part of the Great / Hypostyle Hall, near the gate of the Bubastites. / Karnac. 22nd June 1843. / G. Ll. / These Cartouches were first mentioned by Champollion le Jeune.' (pencil note)

Thebes, upper part of Ramesses II offering, detail of an unidentified scene, perhaps from one of the Osiride pillars in the Second Court or a column in the Hypostyle in the Ramesseum:
-pencil drawing
-mounted
-25 x 35 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Ramases the great. / <<cartouches of Ramesses II>> / Memnonium. / 26th Aug. 1843.' (pencil)
-[on mount] '24' (pencil note)

Seti I mounting his chariot whilst dragging three captive Hittites, detail from a battle scene, , on the North side of the exterior wall of the Hypostyle in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
-pencil drawing
-mounted
-35 x 25 cm
-[on mount] 'Menephthah 1st or Osirei Great Hypostile, Karnac.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] '26' (pencil note)
-[on verso of drawing] 'Menephthah 1st or Osirei. / From a large Bas-relief on the exterior of the Northern / wall of the Great Hypostyle. Karnac. / 14th June 1843. / G Lloyd.' (pencil note)

Ramesses III in chariot hunting lions, detail from the battle against the sea-peoples, from a scene on the North side of the outer face of the exterior wall of the Great Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu:
-pencil drawing
-mounted
-35 x 24.9 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Medinet Abu. / 31st Aug. 1843.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] '27' (pencil note)

Thebes, a harp with the uppermost terminal decorated with the head of Tuthmosis IV, detail from a scene of presentation of royal gifts to the Temple of Amun, in the tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), temp. Thutmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
-pencil drawing
-mounted
-24.9 x 35 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Harp. / Tomb, near 17. / 1st Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] '29' (pencil note)
-[on verso of drawing] 'This is one of the most exquisite things / I have seen in the tombs. It is not finished / for the tomb has never been completed. / The headdress is blue, the band and pendants / and serpent yellow or gold, the staff of the / Harp gold, and the base, silver or white.' (pencil note)

Papyrus-clump, from an unidentified Ptolemaic temple scene at Karnak:
-pencil drawing
-mounted
-35 x 24.9 cm
-[on mount] '30' (pencil note)
-[on verso of drawing] 'Lambris of Lotus Flowers. / From the walls of a small temple near the Pylon / to the North. Karnac. / This ornament is of the Ptolemaic Period. / 14th June 1843. / G Ll.' (pencil note)

Agricultural scenes including waiting mule-chariot, man asleep under tree, boy playing pipe, men carrying and threshing grain, from the tomb of Khaemhet (TT 57), temp. Amenhotep III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes::
-pencil drawing
-mounted
34.9 x 24.9 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Tomb. 5. / 8th Oct. 1843.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] '31' (pencil note)

View of a doum palm (Hyphaene thebaica) in the vicinity of a village North-East of the temples at Karnak:
-pencil drawing
-mounted
-35.5 x 25.3 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Karnac. 2nd July 1843.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] 'The Dunn Palm Cucefera Thebraica. Karnac.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] '35' (pencil note)
-[on verso of drawing] 'The Dum Palm, Cucifera Thebaica. / Near a small village to the N.E. of the ruins. / Karnac. 2nd July 1843.' (pencil note)

A European-style fountain with a central ornament of four female figures with their arms raised supporting a foliform tier, with an additional sketch of an acanthus leaf tier or pedestal, sketched at an unidentified site in Egypt or perhaps sketched for a design:
-pencil sketches
-mounted
-25.4 x 35.4 cm
-[on mount] '41' (pencil note)

A young girl seated on the ground observing a lizard at Karnak:
-pencil drawing
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 110
-17.8 x 25.7 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Karnac. / 23rd June 1843.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] '57' [should be 51] (pencil note)

Portrait of the young boy Abdallah at Karnak:
-pencil drawing
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 109
-17.8 x 25.7 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Abdallah. Karnac. 3rd June 1843 / G Ll.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] '52' (pencil note)

A woman drinking from a jar while standing by the side of two pomegranate trees, detail of a scene from the tomb of Neferhotep (TT 49), probably temp. Ay, at El-Khokha in Thebes:
-pencil drawing
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 111
-25.7 x 17.7 cm
-[on mount] '54' (pencil note)
-[on verso of drawing] 'Woman drinking. / From a painting in a tomb near the one marked A. / Assasief. / 15th July 1843. / This is also copied from a hasty sketch in my note book, and it / would be difficult to trace it as it is much decayed, except / the face and legs.' (pencil note)

A moored boat carrying Hajj pilgrims at Dashriya (North of Gezira village in Luxor, West bank):
-pencil drawing
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 113
-25.7 x 17.7 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Boat with Hadjies. Däschria N of Gessira 29th April 1843.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] '56' (pencil note)

Three men fishing with basket-traps in the flooded canals at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
-pencil drawing
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 116
-25.7 x 17.7 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Fishing with a Basket in the flooded canals. / Gurna. Thebes. 20th Aug: 1843.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] '57' (pencil note)

The solar disk, emerging above the horizon of the mountains, is held by the arms of Nut and those of a personified ankh, with a dressed personified djad pillar supporting the whole group; this central group is adored by four baboons, kneeling Isis and Nephthys and two ba-birds, from a painted wall scene in the Ramesside tomb of Nefersekheru (TT 296), at El-Khokha in Thebes:
-pencil drawing
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 122
-17.7 x 25.7 cm
-[on mount] '63' (pencil note)
-[on verso of drawing] 'From a tomb near the Scheich El Beleds. / Gurna. / 15th July 1843. / This is not very correct as I drew it from a rough sketch / in my Note Book, and as the place was extremely hard to / get to, I did not take the trouble of going there again. / It is painted, but I saw no cartouche. The style of the / tomb is bad, as are the statues in it. The tomb is possibly / of the time of Amenoph 3rd but it is impossible to judge / from the style the period. / G Ll.' (pencil note)

Oblong base of quartzite monument with tapering sides (called 'obelisk'), with dedication texts of Seti I and Ramesses II to Horus of Mesen commemorating Ramesses I, once at Tell Abu Seifa in el-Qantara, and now in Ismailia Museum, 2249; back, with remains of scene at top with a kneeling king offering to a seated [deity], and remains of four columns of text below with two lines of text at the bottom:
-pencil drawing
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 121
-17.8 x 25.8 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Upper side. / Obelisk at Abu Saiffie / 12th Feb 1843. / x' (pencil)
-[on mount] '64' (pencil note)