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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’.

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.

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)

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)

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).

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.

Pencil and watercolour sketch of dahabiyya near Aswan:

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

Two watercolour and pencil sketches:

• upper: Temple of Amada
  • [on mount] 'Temple of Amada (Nubia)' (ink note)
• lower: Temple of Dakka
  • [on mount] 'Temple of Dakkeh' (ink note).

Two mounted watercolour and pencil sketches:

• upper: landscape between Derr and Abu Simbel
  • [on mount] 'Extinct Volcano, between Derr & Aboo Simbel.' (ink note)
• lower: river and dahabiyyahs at Wadi Halfa
  • [on mount] 'Wady Halfah' (ink note).

Red leather cover created in 2002.

Two mounted watercolours:

• upper: Tofana
• lower: Notre Dame (Bosconero) from behind Cortina

Mounted watercolour of Venetian lion at Caprile.

Two watercolours:

• upper: Civetta viewed from Caprile
• lower: Sasso Bianco

Mounted watercolour and pencil sketches of Castellàz and Monte Serrata from Pieve di Zoldo.

Four mounted sketches:

• top left: watercolour of the Rosengarten from the bridge in Bolzano
• top right: watercolour of the Rosengarten from the bridge in Bolzano
• middle: watercolour of an unidentified building
• bottom: pencil drawing of the Rosengarten from the bridge in Bolzano

Bound in brown leather.

• [on label] 'With the compliments of the Acting Keeper of the Department of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford' (printed) '3 Albums brought down from upper Library by Mrs. Gunn. They seem to be Griffith, one having F.II. G. (underlined) inside.' (pencil note)

Ink sketch of head:

• [on drawing] 'Poor Ribert has just heard her step-son died at 9.30 this morning.' (ink note)

Watercolour of dormer window with washing in Basel:

• [on drawing] 'Basle July 16th 1891' (ink note)

Pencil drawing of sitting scribe.

Handwritten letter with ink drawing of carving:

• [on drawing] 'Corner of the Via Augustales Pompeii. May 14th 1891. A.B.E. Saville Villa. August 25th /91. My own darling one - Tomorrow will be thy birthday, + a littly sketch is all a poo' Owl has to send thee - but Owl thinks that perhaps a wee littly sketch from Pompeii, done from the one made when poo' Owl was such a very very poo' Owl, will please thee more than a more valuable gift. My precious one, I am so glad thou art in a beautiful place for thy birthday, + getting fine air, + mountains, and good walks - even though thou art far distant from thy poo' poo' Owl. God bless thee my own oney - + I hope thou wilt have many, many birthdays, + happy years between each, + that thy Owl may live ~~thee~ to give thee less anxiety + more happiness for the future. I have walked to the end of the promenade this morning, + back, before luncheon - the first time I have taken a real good walk so early. It had been pouring in torrents all the morning, + I thought, as it was then holding up, I had better make the most of it. I felt all the better for it, + ate a capital luncheon when I came in. ' I enclose a very satisfactory letter from Petrie - satisfactory both as to the [?] + the Haworths. I [?] hope he will stick to it (woodside, I mean) + not put it off till he has no time left for it. I tried, in writing to him, to let him see by a sort of sidelight, that I deemed it of real importance - + yet not to make too much of it. I did not want to make him feel the painful weight of obligation - + yet I tried that he should gather that I was grave about it. He is so very sharp, that I fancy he wd. not fail to seize a shade of meaning, however slight. He has returned Goodyear's cutting, so I now send it to thee - but I want it back for the Haworths, who have not yet seen it. Baby's little drawing of the tablet is very good - very good indeed. I am sure the oney could draw well with a little teaching + application. How curious the recumbent figure in the "pinked" shroud is, at the bottom!' (ink note)

Three drawings:

• top: pen sketch of head of man.
  • [on drawing] 'Archaic Greek head bas relief, BC. 600. Hair represented by [drawing of hair texture] for curls - Beard by wavy lines-' (ink note)
• middle: pen sketch of vase
  • [on drawing] '"Owl-vase" Troy' (ink note)
• bottom: pencil sketch of warrior
  • [on drawing] 'Ægnia warrior, dying - Sculpture in the round fr Pediment of Temple circa B.C. 500.' (pencil note)

Ink sketch of building:

• [on drawing] 'Mock Hall. May 1888' (ink note)

Ink drawing of unidentified landscape with marabout tombs and dahabiyya.

Ink sketch of man:

• [on drawing] 'Pictorial Biography of A.B.E. The Poet who dedicated his Verses to me.' (ink note)

Handwritten letter with ink drawing of Venice:
'My darling - You ask me the history of my [?]. Well - the Rhodian Apollo is Roman gem, cut in carnelian,' (ink note)

Sketch missing.

• [on mount] 'Small Egyptian Scraps,, 1874. T'ih: A Priest & noble of Memphis. IVth Dynasty.' (ink note)

Pencil drawing of king and queen embracing:

• Mounted
• [on sketch] 'King + Queen embracing. Temple of Amada. Nubia' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'To left of entrance. East wall Temple of Amada. Nubia.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of Ramesses II:

• mounted
• [on drawing] 'Abydos. (funeral scene) Rameses as Kings son worshipping Seti borne on throne as Gods' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Ramses II. as Prince. On the S wall of vaulted chamber to left of Great Hall - Abydos.' (pencil note)