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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’.

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)

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)

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)

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 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)

Pencil drawing of landscape at Albano:

• [on mount] 'Old houses at Albano. Nr Rome. 1857.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of Percy Shelley's grave:

• [on drawing] 'Shelley's grave. Rome. Feby. 20th 1857.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Shelley's grave, Rome. 1857.' (pencil note)

Watercolour of Castle Dinas Bran:

• [on reverse of watercolour] 'Castle Dinas Bran N. Wales' (pencil note)

Handwritten letter with ink drawing of owl:
' I send it to thee to read, will a 'return' [?] [?]? Will thy Owl what S. Chester charges thee for the amulets. I cannot find the string of scarabs that came to me with the rest of Sir. E. Wilsons little collection - + am troubled. I should be so sorry if they were p[?]ing mislaid or lost, like Petrie's things. My sweet, own, darling baby lover-bird, goodbye. Thy poor, lonely, fond, crippled little Martyred Owl' (in ink).

Printed image in colour of cherub.

Ink drawing of man:

• [on drawing] 'Mr Facing-Both-Ways' (ink note)

Ink drawing of statue of seated figure from Kom Firin:

• [on drawing] 'Limestone statuette from Kom Afrin. in ABE's collection. Such work - archaic.' (ink note)

Cover bound in brown leather.

Pencil drawing of the Ponte Vecchio:

• [on drawing] 'The Ponte Vecchio Florence' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'The old bridge Florence 1859.' (pencil note)

Envelope and pencil drawing of carving of people dressing themselves:

• [on drawing] From the Portal of St Gallus. Basel Minster - Aug 26th /62. The Dead putting on their clothes at the sound of the last Trumpet.' (pencil note)
  [on envelope] 'Miss Amelia B. Edwards, The Larches, Westbury-on-Trym, Near Bristol. NOT to be sealed.' (printed).

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 man in profile:

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

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.

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)

Pencil drawing of sitting scribe.

Ink drawing of man walking:

• [on recto of drawing] 'Mr Smith ascending the Kobel-alp.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'or "The British Tourist ascending the Kobel-alp.' (ink note)
• [on verso of drawing] 'Amelia B. Edwards' (underlined) (pencil note)

Handwritten poem:
'To his mummy, (who is older than he) -

What shall I call thee? Mummy, - Sweetheart mine,
Where shall I find thee?... if in truth I dare
To disinter thee from the desert plain
And carry off thy body to afar.

Where shall I find thee? Burrowing with my hands
Tale[?] deep in the earth, as when they seek to meet
Some prised treasure. Yes, to far off lands
we'll travel now this summer fair my sweet.

Thy home shall be some great museum, framed
With all the splendours art can cast around,
Where thou shalt soon midst wond'ring peoples stand,
Nor think x [?] more to lie in native ground.

Yes come, I know, thou wilt! For well nigh due
Is now another find; since two days past
Have not seen a portrait, and anew
I seek to find another love at last.

I waked last night from dreams of finds, and lo!
Five new tombs have we opened now today,
And sure in one of them, deep down, full low,
Thy smiling face is lying! Come away!

Away dear love to meet and greet the sun,
Which yet thou hast not seen for ages past,
When thou lay down, Europe had scarce begun
To run its course, which thou shalt see at last.

Swift, swift, we'll travel by Northern shore
Dear lady! from the drowsy East fly fast,
Darkness + ignominy are no more,
Thy treasured features now are mine at last.

Hawara

W.m.F.P.
With many apologies to A.B.E.

Ink drawing of man:

• [on drawing] 'Pictorial Biography of A. B. E. My Last Love' (ink note)