6 letters from Preaux, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý's secretary to Préaux, sent in Černý's absence. Appreciation of some of Černý's publications and intended publications (e.g. on ancient Egyptian religion); Préaux visited London several times during 1950 and met Černý on at least one occasion; social contact with other scholars resident in Belgium.
3 letters from Robertson, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Robertson. Ostraca in the Hunterian Museum collection, and the extended loan of the Museum's ostraca to Černý.
13 letters from Roeder, 8 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Roeder. 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to a pharmaceutical company on behalf of Roeder's pupil Mrs Berger.
the situation of German Egyptology after the Second World War (WWII)
exchange of publications established despite difficulties
Roeder's research on statuary
Černý saved food from his own rations in the UK and sent it to Roeder
Slides, colour transparencies, 35 mm black & white and colour film slides, variously sized black & white negatives, black & white and colour photographs, 19th Century photographs, antique and modern postcards, and project folders containing working notes, photocopies and correspondence.
1 letter from Rosen. Černý's contribution to a Festschrift for Polotsky (see [Rosén, H. B.] (ed.), Studies in Egyptology and Linguistics in Honour of H. J. Polotsky (1964) (OEB 159090).
2 letters from Rowton. Includes reference to an off-print, see Rowton, M. B., 'Manetho's date for Ramesses II', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 34 (1948), 57-74 (OEB 1508).
3 letters from Rutherford. Mapping of Wadi Hammamat (TopBib vii.328-337), inscriptions from the Persian period, and a study of Egyptian units of measurement.
2 letters from Rypka, 1 draft of a letter from Černý to Rypka. Rypka, Dean of the Faculty of Arts in Prague, proposing Černý's membership of academic bodies in Czechoslovakia, and Černý's interest in the periodical Naše řeč (official title translation "Our speech", see http://nase-rec.ujc.cas.cz/?lang=en.
1) Negatives and prints of drawings of Egypt by Henry Salt (1815-25), property of Lady Salt, Shillingstone House, Dorset. 2) Photocopies of a portfolio of coloured drawings of Egypt by Henry Salt at the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, British Museum, London.
5 letters from Sander-Hansen, 6 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Sander-Hansen. Setting up of the International Association of Egyptologists; membership of the organisation; publications. Černý recommending R. Haardt as Coptologist to Sander-Hansen.
52 letters from Marie Sargant (wife of J. Černý), 55 letters from Černý to Marie Sargant. Personal correspondence regarding Černý 's move to the United Kingdom in 1946, his health issues and other private and family matters; Černý's travels; the move from London to Oxford in 1951.
27 letters from Sauneron to Černý. 2 letters from Sauneron to Marie Černý, 1 letter (with multiple drafts) from Marie Černý to Sauneron. Professional and personal matters:
Sauneron's research and news of research-based travelling
Egyptian philology, palaeography
studies in hieratic
book exchange and purchases
occasional news of family Marie Černý consulting Sauneron regarding posthumous publications of J. Černý, as well as the use of Černý's notebooks.
Notes, photographs, squeezes, correspondence, and offprints. Contain, amongst others, references to Assyriological, Greek, Cypriot, and Egyptological material. Includes notes made by Petrie which were with Sayce at the time of his death.
1 letter from Scharff, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Scharff. Scharff sent Černý a copy of his publication on the cult of Osiris (probably Scharff, A., Die Ausbreitung des Osiriskultes in der Frühzeit und während des Alten Reiches (1948) (OEB 1516)).
