Journal 1841-1842 and some correspondence.

Ferdinand (Ferdy) Platt's correspondence relates to two excursions to Egypt, in 1896 and 1907-1908.

• First group: eighteen letters and postcards, sent during Platt's first independent visit to Egypt in early 1896, when he initially travelled with a friend. Dating between 26 January and 19 April, the letters are addressed to Platt's mother. They record meeting Flinders Petrie and other notables.
• Second group: thirty-one letters sent during Platt's second trip to Egypt in 1907-1908, when he accompanied the eighth Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, their relations Lord and Lady Gosford with their daughter Lady Theo, Sir Charles Cradock-Hartopp. Dating between 4 November 1907 and 8 February 1908, they are addressed to Platt's wife, Mabel (May). They record Platt's encounters with Winston Churchill, Alan Gardiner, James Quibell, George Reisner, Archibald Sayce and Arthur Weigall, among others. The letters also mention a meeting with Howard Carter when the latter was still earning a living as an artist, producing paintings for tourists; the letters provide important insights into Carter's life just before he began his partnership with Lord Carnarvon.

Notes, transcriptions, translations, article drafts, lecture drafts, card index, photographs, slides, overhead projector sheets, electronic data files, microfilm, correspondence, annotated photocopies and off-prints, relating to Coptic and Greek documents and Coptic archaeology.

Notebooks, notes, card indexes of the Pyramid Texts and Late Egyptian, copies of inscriptions, corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, drawings, correspondence, copies of his own publications, and portraits.

Notebooks, notes, card indexes, copies of inscriptions, a corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, correspondence, and personal items.

• Series 1 to 4, 6, 7 contain photographs, copies, transcriptions and translations of Egyptian texts, and photographs of objects and sites.
• Series 5 contains articles and lectures, some unpublished.
• Series 5 and 10 contain notes on Egyptian history.
• Series 8, 14, 22, 24, 26 contain notes and indexes on lexicography and grammar and card indexes for a late Egyptian and general hieroglyphic dictionary.
• Series 17 contains notebooks with transcriptions of texts from ostraca, graffiti, papyri and other monuments. There is a card index of ostraca with references to notebooks in series 28.
• Series 18 and 23 contain Coptic notes and a card index for Coptic grammar.
• Series 25 contains data on Egyptian personal names.
• Series 33 is an etymological card index.

Correspondence and notes relating to the geography of the Hittite Empire, Babylonian music, decipherment, and various other topics.

Portrait of Howard Carter, oil painting by his brother William C., signed and dated '1924'.

Photograph portrait of Phyllis Walker, as a child aged about six.

Howard Carter's desk-set:

• Henry and Arthur Vander of London
• Silver, hallmarked 1919

Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on the 'Heretic Family' (Amarna period kings), part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty. This group includes:

• Typewritten genealogical table (folding) for Amenophis III (Amenhotep III), Amenophis IV (Amenhotep IV; Akhenaton; Ikhnaton), Smenkhkare, and Tutankhamun. Accompanied by 5 typewritten pages of accompanying notes, incorporating the comments of Dr Douglas Derry and Carter
• Typewritten table with dates of accession and death for 18th Dynasty kings, excluding Neferneferuaten and Haremhab (Horemheb). - Accompanied by several pages of manuscript notes on regnal years, relevant bibliography, and miscellaneous notes
• Letter to Carter from H. E. Winlock, dated 20-12-1925, regarding a discussion on Tutankhamun's parentage
• Notes on dated monuments of Amenophis IV (Amenhotep IV; Akhenaton; Ikhnaton)
• Letter to Carter from P. E. Newberry, dated 20-12-1931, responding to Carter's enquiry whether Amenophis III (Amenhotep III) had a son named Thutmose, off-print enclosed of Newberry, Percy E. 1928. 'The sons of Tuthmosis IV'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), pp. 82-85 figs pl. xii (OEB 146401).

Howard Carter's manuscript notes with sketches.

• Transcriptions of royal attributes for Ramesses IV, from his tomb, KV 2, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
• Weight of Shepses, stone, Old Kingdom, from Edfu, bought by Carter in Cairo. [see TopBib v.205A]
• Lion-hunt scarab of Amenophis III, blue glazed steatite, found during excavations in Luxor temple in 1917 and purchased by Carter "for C.". A very similar scarab, or the same one, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 74392.

Howard Carter's photograph, statue base with feet of standing statue, inscription with cartouches on front of base, faience, New Kingdom, found during excavation of Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs (over Valley Temple of Hatshepsut), Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.

Howard Carter's photograph, copper implements, includes a knife or razor, from a toilet set?, labelled "14", Cemeteries, Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.
Includes duplicate photograph.

Howard Carter's photograph, stela of Akhamenerau, Servant of Amun, Chamberlain, son of Paheri, before Osiris and four sons of Horus, probably 26th Dynasty, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 44268, Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs (over Valley Temple of Hatshepsut), Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.

Letter from Alan H. Gardiner to Howard Carter, 9 July 1923, with Gardiner's transcription and translation for the lion-hunt ostracon, found during Carnarvon excavations in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. The ostracon was found in 1920, near the, yet to be discovered, entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, is now in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1453.

Howard Carter's photograph of the lion-hunt ostracon, found during Carnarvon excavations in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. The ostracon was found in 1920, near the, yet to be discovered, entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, is now in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1453.

Howard Carter's photograph of the text on verso of the lion-hunt ostracon found during Carnarvon excavations in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. The ostracon was found in 1920, near the, yet to be discovered, entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, is now in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1453.

Howard Carter's annotated typescript with notes on royal tombs, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Titled 'The evolution of the Theban Royal Tombs', dated 11/06/1923.

Howard Carter's manuscript on 'Component parts of royal hypogea of the XVIIIth Dynasty' with sketches of sample tomb plans. For royal tombs, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Notebooks, loose notes, maps, plans, drawings, newspaper cuttings, watercolours, and a silver desk-set. The documentation was created during Carter's career between 1899-1939. This material excludes material connected with the tomb of Tutankhamun, see the Tutankhamun Archive.

Howard Carter's lantern slides featuring Harry Burton's photographs taken during the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• A twelve-drawered wood chest containing over 600 glass lantern slides
• Belonging to Howard Carter.
• The lantern slides were made from Harry Burton's images.
• Used by Carter in his lectures.

Harry Burton's small glass plate negatives

Howard Carter's negatives

Later film negatives, made from original Burton photographs

• Some are original Harry Burton negatives.
• Carter's negatives are views of the area around the tomb entrance and the outer sealed doorway when the tomb was found in 1922 and before Burton joined the Tutankhamun excavation team in December 1922.
• Glass and film negatives.
• Approximately 1000 negatives (400 glass and 600 film)
• Number ranges 1-2024 and i-xcvii
• The negative number ranges comprise both the small and large negatives (large, see TAA i.5)
• A few original negatives in this series were created by Howard Carter, see above.
• Many of the negatives were made later in the Ashmolean Museum photographic studio from photographs supplied by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, following an exchange of images in the 1950s.
• Includes modern film negatives made in the Ashmolean Museum photographic studio from the original Harry Burton photographic prints in the Tutankhamun Archive, Griffith Institute.

Howard Carter's "autopsy" drawings, recording objects in situ on Tutankhamun's body and within the body wrappings.

• 18 annotated pencil drawings of groups of objects found in the body wrappings and on the body of Tutankhamun, recorded during the autopsy of the King's body, 11-19 November 1925
• All by Howard Carter

Harry Burton's large glass plate negatives.

• Taken by Harry Burton during the excavation, clearance and recording of Tutankhamun's tomb
• Approximately 860 negatives
• Number ranges 1-2024 and i-xcvii
• The negative number ranges comprise both the small and large negatives (small, see TAA i.6)

Ten albums containing original photographic prints made by Harry Burton [TAA i.6.1-10].

• Arranged by chamber and by object type
• Annotated headings and negative numbers, probably by Harry Burton or his wife Minnie B.
• Howard Carter's set of albums

Originally belonging to Howard Carter.

Seal impressions. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• i. Letters from James Henry Breasted to Howard Carter, 1923, on an article in Harpers Magazine, and Tutankhamun's seal impressions.
• ii. James Henry Breasted's manuscript report on the eight types of seal impression found in Tutankhamun's tomb and 2 letters from Breasted to Carter dated 03-01-1923 and 15-02-1923.
• iii, iv. Two folders marked "Seals A-H" and "Seals I-S", Carter's annotated typewritten reports with his draft and finished pencil drawings of each type of seal impression, with some manuscript and a few typewritten notes.
• v. One record card with notes on seals, extracted from a letter from Breasted, dated 16-03-1923, copied by A. C. Mace.
• Later typed note, dated 1960, with A. H. Gardiner's translation for Seal C.
• Annotated photograph (Burton (sic) P0274b), almost certainly taken by Carter, of the outermost doorway showing the blocking intact with seals.

Chariots. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Includes Carter's drawings with reconstructions of the chariots and harnesses, comparisons with chariots from other tombs and depictions of chariots from temple and tomb wall scenes.
• An essay on Tutankhamun's chariots (TAA i.3.8.10-17), based on Howard Carter's notes, probably edited by Mrs Jane Waley in 1946-1947. Mrs Waley worked for the Griffith Institute and created the first catalogue for the Tutankhamun records.

Canopic equipment. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Carter's eight annotated typewritten pages with a description of the equipment and two scale drawings:
  • Carter's typewritten report on the canopic equipment;
  • Carter's typescript notes on the miniature gold coffin from the north-east receptacle;
  • Carter's drawing, the canopic canopy (266), shrine (266a), and chest (266b), plan with orientation, position of the goddess statues, scenes on shrine noting goddesses and genii, etc.;
  • Carter's drawing, section showing the canopic canopy (266), shrine (266a), and chest (266b).

Howard Carter's appointment diary for 1922

• Letts's - No. 46 - Indian and Colonial - Rough Diary - 1922
• Carter's activities in Egypt include departures and arrivals, lunch appointments, meetings with officials and colleagues, and his excavations
• Contains the first records on the tomb of Tutankhamun and its discovery
• Significant dates include:
  • 4th November 1922: "First steps of tomb found"
  • 5th November 1922: "Discovered tomb under tomb of Ramses VI Investigated same & found seals intact."
  • 26th November 1922: "Open second doorway about 2 4 5 pm. Advised Engelbach."