This group consists of two parts:

• part one: Edwards MSS 1.1-311
  • notebook, annotated on the cover: "Notes & Extracts"
  • containing 311 numbered ruled pages, with some loose and affixed items
  • content includes handwritten and printed material, watercolours and drawings
• part two: 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] '"In the name of The Prophet - Cakes!" Moskee. Cairo.' (in ink)

Pencil sketch of marabouts near Siout

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Arab tombs near Siout' (ink note).

9 pencil sketches:

• top left: man leaning on staff and woman with jar
• top middle: man
• top right: two women, one with a child
• middle left: woman with jar
• middle middle: man sitting
• middle right: woman with child
• bottom left: woman collecting water
• bottom middle: man with pipe
• bottom left: two men.

Watercolour and pencil sketch of necropolis of Abydos and Kom es Sultan:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Necropolis of Abydus and Kom es Sultan' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of Coptic convent near Naqadah:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Coptic Convent - near Negada' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of remains of structure and dahabiyyas:

• mounted
• [on sketch] 'Near Siout. Jany 1 1874' (painted note)
• [on mount] 'Waterwheel. Siout' (ink note).

Nine pencil sketches:

• top left: person with staff
• top middle: man sitting and smoking
  • [on mount] 'Ali, the Nubian.' (ink note)
• top right: veiled woman with jars
• middle left: head of man
  • [on mount] 'Riskalli' (ink note)
• middle middle: group of men with boat near Manfalut
  • [on mount] 'Group of Natives (waiting for the Ferry) Manfaloot' (ink note)
• middle right: Man sitting
  • [on mount] 'Riskalli' (ink note)
• bottom left: Reïs Hassan
  • [on mount] 'Reïs Hassan' (ink note)
• bottom middle: man reclining on ?carved block
• bottom right: man standing
  • [on mount] 'Salame' (ink note).

Nine sketches:

• top left: pencil sketch of donkey
• top middle: pencil sketch of mountains above Denderah
  • [on mount] 'Mountains above Denderah.' (ink note)
• top right: pencil sketch of man wading
• middle left: pencil sketch of two figures
• middle middle: pencil sketch of three men at Beni Suef
  • [on sketch] 'Benisouf' (pencil note)
• middle right: pencil sketch of seated figure
• bottom left: pencil sketch of male figure standing
  • [on mount] 'Georgi Hassan' (ink note)
• bottom middle: pencil and watercolour sketch of dahabiyyas
  • [on mount] 'Nerghaileh. W. Bank.' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of hypostyle hall at Karnak:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Hypostyle Hall. Karnac. Looking East.'

Watercolour and pencil sketch of Hypostyle Hall at Karnak:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Hypostyle Hall. Karnak. Looking West.' (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).

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)

Pencil sketch with two men and camel in foreground and remains of structure in the background.

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Bargaining for a Camel. Assouan.' (ink 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.

Watercolour and pencil sketch of palace gateway, Medinet Habu:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Palace Gateway: Medinet Haboot.' (ink note).

Pencil and watercolour sketch of dahabiyya near Aswan:

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

Watercolour and pencil sketch of landing place at Aswan:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Assouan. (The traders landing place.)' (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).

Pencil and watercolour sketch of two camels.

Watercolour and pencil sketch of rock inscriptions at Philae:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Inscribed Rock. Philae.' (ink note).

Pencil drawing with Christian altar in the first hypostyle hall at Philae temple complex:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Early Christian Shrine. Temple of Isis. (Philae)' (ink note).

Nine mounted pencil sketches:

• top left: seated male figure
• top middle: male figure from behind
  • [on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
• top right: male head
• middle left: head of woman
  • [on mount] 'Woman of Derr' (ink note)
• middle middle: male figures
  • [on mount] 'Cataract Nubians. (Shellalee)' (ink note)
• middle right: head of woman
  • [on mount] 'Woman of Derr' (ink note)
• bottom left: standing male figure
• bottom middle: male figure
  • [on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
• bottom right: standing male figure.

Five 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
  • [on mount] 'Sheyk Saleem. (Farshoot)' (ink note). Sketch has additions in ink.

Seven pencil sketches:

• top left: dahabiyya
• top middle: five figures
• top right: standing male figure
• middle: skeleton of camel
  • [on sketch] 'In the Desert. March 11th 1874' (in pencil)
  • [on mount] 'Skeleton of a Camel.' (ink note)
• bottom left: standing male figure
  • [on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
• bottom middle: three male figures
  • [on mount] 'Cataract Nubians.' (ink note)
• bottom right: reclining male figure
  • [on mount] 'Cataract Nubian' (ink note).

Pencil sketch of woman and child:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Nubian woman & child (Maharrakeh)' (ink note).

Three mounted pencil and watercolour sketches:

• top: pencil sketch of landscape near Kalabsha
  • [on mount] 'Island & Coptic Ruins near Kalabsheh. (Nubia)' (ink note)
• middle: pencil and watercolour sketch of Temple of Gertasseh
  • [on mount] 'Temple of Gertasseh (Nubia)' (ink note)
• bottom: pencil and watercolour sketch of town near Maharraqa
  • [on mount] 'Ruins of ancient fortified Town (unknown) near Maharrakeh. (Nubia)' (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).

Watercolour and ink sketch of men on scaffolding cleaning one of the statues at Abu Simbel:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Cleaning the Colossus (Aboo Simbel)' (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).