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Diaries

Two diaries (with continuous pagination) compiled between 7 November 1898 and 9 February 1899 during the Marquis of Northampton's excavations at Thebes [TopBib i2.607-609]:

  • Diari I: p. 1-94 (7 November 1898 - 27 January 1899)
  • Diari II: p. 96-115 (27 January 1899 - 9 February 1899).

Head of Ti; water sellers; donkeys; Sheik Salim

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)

The Damascus Gate; men riding donkeys; a shaduf; camels; and water bearers

Nine mounted pencil sketches:

  • top left: man on donkey
  • top middle: shaduf
    • [on mount] 'The Shadoof' (ink note)
  • top right: man on donkey
  • middle left: man
  • middle middle: Damascus Gate, Cairo
    • [on mount] 'The Bab en Nasr - or Damascus Gate. Cairo' (ink note)
  • middle right: man
  • bottom left: two camels
  • bottom middle: man
  • bottom right: camel, man and three women with water jars
    • [on mount] 'Going to fetch water from the Nile' (ink note)

Title page

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)

Egypt large album

Album containing drawings and watercolours during visit to Egypt in the winter of 1873-1874. Many of the preliminary sketches and watercolours in the album were used to illustrate her book A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, published in 1877.

  • Annotation on the title page: 'Egyptian Scraps: 1874' (ink note)
  • 38 numbered pages with 107 mounted items
  • includes watercolours, drawings and sketches made in Egypt, many with Edwards' annotated captions

Albums

This group consists of four albums.

  • Edwards MSS 2.1: Watercolours and drawings made in Egypt, 1874.
  • Edwards MSS 2.2: Watercolours and drawings made in the Dolomites, 1872.
  • Edwards MSS 2.3: Ephemera, including some Egypt and Dolomite-related material, 1872-1891.
  • Edwards MSS 2.4: Watercolours and drawings made in Egypt, 1874.

Notes and ephemera

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.

Front end paper

Front end paper with pasted note:

  • 'This volume was re-bound through the generosity of AEMES (Ancient Egypt & Middle East Society, Lincolnshire), Manchester Ancient Egypt Society and the Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt (Derbyshire) in August 2002' (printed).

Ostraca and cast

Cast of hieroglyphs made at Deir el Bahari.
Ostracon given by Warren Dawson 30.xii.32, no. D. 102.
Two ostraca marked “bought Luxor 1910”.

Griffith Institute Squeezes Collection

  • GI Squeezes
  • Collection

Paper squeezes from various sources. The Pontifex squeezes are mounted and are kept in five original portfolios. The Stobart squeezes are not mounted and stored in a package. Other collections of squeezes are not mounted and are stored in large boxes.

Royal Mail booklet PDF printout: Royal Mail "Tutankhamun"

Booklet PDF, 5 double-sided pages, printed from the Royal Mail website, advertising products from the Special Stamp Issue 'Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, issued on 24 November 2022.

Burton, Harry

Amherst, (Lady) Margaret Susan - correspondence

Correspondence from Lady Margaret Susan Amherst (d. 1919) (wife of Lord Amherst of Hackney) relating to:

  • Newberry's work at Tel el Amarna and Beni Hassan;
  • the purchase of items, including requests that Newberry purchase certain items on their behalf;
  • Howard Carter's appointment;
  • fraud and sale of house and belongings (1906);
  • Newberry's divorce trial.

Note:
MSS 2/47a is also numbered 2/61
MSS 2/47b is also numbered 2/62 and 255
MSS 2/18, 2/24, 2/26, 2/28, 2/35 and 2/36 have been moved to NEWB2/14A (Miss Margaret Amherst).

Amherst, (Miss) Margaret Mitford - correspondence

Correspondence from Miss Margaret Mitford Amherst (b. 1864; fourth daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney) on topics including receipt of the proofs of Newberry, Percy E. 1899. The Amherst Papyri, being an account of the Egyptian papyri in the collection of the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, F.S.A., at Didlington Hall, Norfolk: with an appendix on a Coptic papyrus (OEB 146343); visit of HRH Edward VII to Didlington Hall; work on the publication produced by Lady Amherst of Hackney 1904. A sketch of Egyptian history from the earliest times to the present day (OEB 133461); invitations to Diddlington Hall to meet Lord Percy.

Note:
Previously miscatalogued as part of NEWB2/014 (Lady Margaret Amherst).
Previously numbered as 2/18, 2/24, 2/26, 2/28, 2/35 and 2/36.

Amherst, (Lord) William Amhurst Tyssen (1st Baron Amherst of Hackney) - correspondence

Correspondence from Lord William Amhurst Tyssen Amherst (First Baron Amherst of Hackney) (1835-1909) on topics including: travel in Egypt; purchase of items from Egypt; articles written by Newberry.

Note:
MSS 2/71A is also numbered 96
MSS 2/73 is also numbered 43
MSS 2/74 is also numbered 49
MSS 2/75 is also numbered 20
MSS 2/76 is also numbered 41
MSS 2/77 is also numbered A.222
MSS 2/78 is also numbered A.223
MSS 2/79 is also numbered A.221
MSS 2/80 is also numbered A.228
MSS 2/84 is also numbered 33
MSS 2/85 is also numbered 35
MSS 2/86 is also numbered 34
MSS 2/87 is also numbered 37a
MSS 2/93 is also numbered 46
MSS 2/75 is also numbered 20

Amherst, (Miss) Sybil Margaret - correspondence

Correspondence from Miss Sybil Margaret Amherst (1858-1926; 2nd daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney) on topics including relating to the purchase of items in Egypt, the sale of the family's book collection to Liverpool, the identification of museum papyri.

Amherst, (Miss) Mary Rothes Margaret - correspondence

Correspondence from Miss Mary Rothes Margaret Amherst (1857-1919; eldest daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney; marriage 1885, Lord William Cecil; in 1909 succeeded her Father as 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney) on topics including relating to the purchase of items in Egypt; the sale of the family's book collection to Liverpool; the identification of museum papyri.

Note:
MSS 2/48a is also numbered 1/50 and A.96

Amherst, (Miss) Florence - correspondence

Correspondence from Miss Florence Amherst (b. 1857; 3rd daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney) writing on behalf of her Mother, Lady Margaret Susan Amherst, relating to the publication of an article by her Father and on his death.

Dates of letters:
10 September 1898
January 1909
26 August 1922

Amherst, (Miss) Alicia Margaret - correspondence

Correspondence from Miss Alicia Margaret Amherst (1865-1941; 5th daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney; married 1898, Sir Evelyn Gascoyne-Cecil) mainly relates to research for her book on the history of gardening. Correspondence 1907 relating to the need to raise money, the sale of books, and asking Newberry to seek an interview with Carnegie on the family's behalf.

"Transcending Eternity: The Centennial Tutankhamun Conference": memorabilia and GI participation

Material relating to the "Transcending Eternity: The Centennial Tutankhamun Conference", held in Luxor, Egypt, between 4-6 November 2022.

  1. Booklet with information on schedule and speakers.
  2. Menu of the Gala Dinner at the Luxor Temple on 4 November 2022.
  3. Printout of lecture (and slides) given by Francisco Bosch-Puche on behalf of the Griffith Institute on 5 November 2022.
  4. Printout of article by Francisco Bosch-Puche and Elizabeth Fleming for the proceedings of the conference (version June 2023).

Bosch-Puche, Francisco

Marianne Eaton-Krauss Collection

  • Eaton-Krauss MSS
  • Collection
  • 1966-2024
  • Correspondence with other Egyptologists (now deceased) and some miscellaneous correspondence. Includes Eaton-Krauss's exchanges with Cyril Aldred, Martha R. Bell, Bernard V. Bothmer, Jochen Briegleb, Helmut Brunner, Ricardo A. Caminos, Henry G. Fischer, Wolfgang Helck, Barry J. Kemp, Christine Lilyquist, Jaromir Malek, Geoffrey T. Martin, William Murnane, James Romano, John Romer, and Walter Segal.
  • Notes and correspondence relating to articles and books peer-reviewed by Eaton-Krauss.
  • Recommendations for appraisals of academic posts.
  • Correspondence with Marc Gabolde between 1987 and 2023 about a research project to study the monuments associated with king Tutankhamun in the Temple of Karnak; accompanied by a chronological sum
  • Folder with items relating to a Festschrift contribution on the el-Tôd Treasure, in press.
  • Folder with items relating to her participation in "Transcending Eternity: The Centennial Tutankhamun Conference" (Luxor, 4-6 November 2022).

Marianne Eaton-Krauss

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