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Seven notebooks detailing graffiti in the Temple of Amun and, to a lesser degree, the Temple of Montu, Karnak, organised by location, created between 1968 and 1971. Supported by six boxes of indices, plans, photographs, epigraphic drawings, squeezes, related correspondence, and a folder of analysis drawn from the notebooks.

• MSS 1 (Egyptomania): 12 ring binders, 1 box, and 9 folders of Egyptomania material, including offprints and photocopies of publications, press cuttings, information on exhibitions, photographs, greeting cards, advertising and packaging, etc., some arranged by period or by type (e.g. pyramids, obelisks), with accompanying notes and some correspondence. One of the ring binders contains material relating to Whitehouse's book project on Egyptomania, including notes, some typed pages, and proposed plates/illustrations for the publication as a whole.
• MSS 2 (card index): Card index of occurrences of Egyptomania material (3 small boxes).
• MSS 3 (35 mm slides): 29 sheets of 35 mm colour slides (c. 650), comprising mostly Whitehouse's original photographs, primarily of Egyptomania buildings and monuments in Europe; also including some commercially purchased slides and others made from publications (c. 1969-1989).
• MSS 4 (lectures): Scripts for 20 lectures (1984-2009, five undated).
• MSS 5 (article): Draft article titled "Schiller, Mauro Tesi and the Veiled Statue of Isis", unpublished, with related correspondence, including several rejection letters from publishers (1989).
• MSS 6 (Harris correspondence): Correspondence (letters, postcards, and cards) with John Harris, including discussion of certain objects (c. 1972-1997, but many undated).
• MSS 7 (Seznec's file): Professor John Seznec's (1905-1983) file on an unfinished publication titled On the Impact of Egypt on France/French Imagination in the 19th Century, including research notes, a draft lecture on Isis (likely intended as a chapter of the monograph), offprints and copies of publications, photographs, correspondence with publishers, and additional 1985 correspondence between Whitehouse and Francis Haskell regarding this file.

Excavation records compiled by Howard Carter and members of the Tutankhamun excavation team, primary material

Professional and personal correspondence, the majority of letters date between 1946-1970 and are addressed to J. Černý in London, Oxford, Prague and other European, American and Egyptian addresses and locations. The letters contain Egyptological information regarding text readings, translations, exchange of information on objects in museums or in situ, sites and texts.

Group of personal photographs.

8 letters from (Henry) Rolf Gardiner.
Personal.

Two volumes on the history and archaeology of the Beja tribes of the Eastern Sudan (MSS 1) and small group of detached papers / personal file (MSS 2).

Journal, photographs, typescript, and various notes connected with Stewart's work on the reconstruction of some of the furniture of Queen Hetepheres for the Harvard-Boston Expedition.

Howard Carter's hand-drawn draft plan of the entire tomb with intact sealed doorways. Tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Dated 'December 1923'.

Lindsley Foote Hall and Walter Hauser's sketches recording the position of objects (nos. 77, 79, 153) in situ on top of the cow-headed couch (no. 73), found in the Antechamber, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Used for compiling the draft and final plans of Antechamber, see Carter MSS i.G.10 and 11.
Some calculations on verso, perhaps related to plan on verso.

Four offprints (three bound together and one loose), letter, and notes:

• 1. Offprint of Pinches, Theophilus G. "Greek Transcriptions of Babylonian Tablets", Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 24 (1902), p. 108-119.
• 2. Offprint of Sayce, A. H. "The Greeks in Babylonia: Graeco-Cuneiform Texts", Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 24 (1902), p. 120-125.
• 3. Offprint of Johns, C. H. W. "The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel", Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 30 (1908), p. 107-141.
• 4. Offprint of Schulten, Adolf. "Ein unbekanntes Alphabet aus Spanien", Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 78 (1/2) (1924), p. 1-18.
• 5. Letter to Sayce from Wentworth Webster dated 11 October 1872 on an Iberian inscription from Castellon (Spain).
• 6. Three loose notes on the inscription above and other similar inscriptions.

Correspondence, note, and two squeezes from multiple individuals:

• 1. Letter to Sayce from William Ramsay dated 8 August 1924 mentioning he is sending an impression of a seal, with the name Yalowatch/Yalowadj. The letter was written from "13 Greenhill Terrace, Edinburgh".
• 2. Letter to Sayce from William Ramsay undated ("Friday") asking Sayce whether he can make sense of the Cappadocian months he goes on to list. The letter was written from "Devon House, Forest Hill".
• 3. Letter to Sayce from John Punnett Peters dated 23 October 1888 discussing an inscription from Tarsus and saying he will send impressions. The letter was written from "Imperial Ottoman Bank, Constantinople".
• 4. Letter from Sayce to John Garstang dated 10 March 1907 apologising for being unable to join Garstang at Abydos. The letter was sent from "Dahabia Istar, Luxor".
• 5. Note with details of bead with inscription from Jerusalem. Probably by William M. Ramsay. The note is written on paper from "Palestine Exploration Fund, 24, Hanover Square, London W.".
• 6. Letter to Sayce from James (?) dated 11 September 1882 on sending Sayce the inscription of Marash lion. The letter was written from "St. Mary Church" in Torquay. The letter encloses a pencil rubbing of a bronze stamp with the label "a puzzle in Phenician epigraphy.(?)".
• 7. Letter to Gurney from Peter E. Rider, Atlantic Provinces Historian at National Museums Canada, dated 20 November 1978 about "The Fletcher Stone" or "The Yarmouth Runic Stone", which is now in Yarmouth Museum, Nova Scotia. The letter is written on paper from the "National Museums Canada; National Museum of Man".
• 8. Letter to Gurney from David L. Keenlyside, Atlantic Provinces Archaeologist at National Museums Canada,, dated 22 November 1978 discussing how the Museum's curator has verified the rock inscription which Sayce had referred to as the "Yarmouth Stone". The letter is written on paper from the "National Museums Canada".
• 9. Two squeezes of the same inscription.
• 10. Photograph of tombstone of an Etruscan grave "of man & wife" near Bologna, c. 1865-1870, by Fotografia dell'Emilia. The text on the reverse reads: "Gran Raccolta di Vedute e Quadri delle Città Bologna Ravenna e dintorni. Strada S. Mamolo No 101 1o Palazzo Rodriguez Bologna".

Draft of Sayce, A. H. "The Libraries of David and Solomon", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 63 (4), p. 783-790.

Sayce writes about archaeological discoveries on the Phoenician coast, to the north of Latakia, featuring texts in at least five different languages in cuneiform script (Babylonian, Sumerian, Mitannian, and Canaanite). He tracks the earliest Phoenician and cuneiform script, relating this to biblical texts and the library of David and Solomon.

Offprint of Keimer, L. "Das „Sandfahren“ der Totenfiguren (wšbtiw), „um den Sand der Ostseite zur Westseite zu fahren“", Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 29 (1) (1926), p. 49-52. A mention of artificial fertiliser in ancient Egypt.

Cutting of letter to The Times from W. Flinders Petrie on the EES Excavations at Abydos.

Hand-written Phrygian notes:

• A) Notes from Hamilton on different insciptions, including copies of inscriptions from Afion Kara Hissar and Ishekli. They might be from the publication Hamilton, William J. Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia: with Some Account of Their Antiquities and Geology, London (1842).
• B) Notes from Hamilton on different inscriptions, including copies of inscriptions.
• C) Notes from Mahaffy, John P. "Notes", Hermathena 4 (7) (1881), p. 82-89, including copies of inscriptions and a list of male and female Greek gods.
• D-H) Series of tracings [from Sir William Mitchell Ramsay] with inscriptions from Midas City (Eskişehir Province, Turkey):
  • D) No. 10 "In the rocks beside the Midas City".
  • E) No. 4 cf. Steuart (= Steuart, John Robert, A Description of Some Ancient Monuments, with Inscriptions, Still Existing in Lydia and Phrygia, London (1842), "over an altar").
  • F) No. 11 "In a large square cut recess above what seems to have been an altar approached by a set of steps. Opp[osite] Lion Tomb".
  • G) No. 5 cf. Steuart.
  • H) No. 6 cf. Steuart.
• I) Notes on Phyrgian Inscriptions and Hamilton.

Copy of hieroglyphic inscription: Egyptian-Hittite treaty of Ramesses II in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, lines 26-29 [TopBib ii2.132.(492)A].

Notes on "Mixed Jargons" (Appendix to Sayce's Introduction to the Science of Language) in English and Arabic. The author discusses the piece of Maltese, which he considers Arabic, in this appendix and rewrites the passage accordingly including annotations.
Sayce, A. H. Introduction to the Science of Language, 2 vols, London (1880). The corresponding chapter can be found in volume 1, Appendix to Chapter III "Specimens of Mixed Jargons".

Copies of Greek inscriptions from the Temple of Athena at Pergamon, with references.

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

• Newspaper cutting from The Illustrated London News, 10 February 1934, p. 207. This article includes photographs of ancient Egyptian circlets found at El Lahun and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• Reference material for Tutankhamun's diadem [Carter 256, 4o].