Identity area
Reference code
NEWB2/201
Title
Dawson, Warren Royal - correspondence
Date(s)
- 1919 - 1949 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
1 cm, 32 letters
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Name of creator
(23 April 1869 - 7 August 1949)
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Scope and content
Correspondence from Warren Royal Dawson including on: situation regarding excavation work in Egypt; translation of hieroglyphs; publications Dawson is working on; references to the tomb of Ay; funerary papyri of the 21st Dynasty; Queen Nozme; 21st dynasty burial sites; Newberry's articles on the Pig and the Olive; discussion of various Egyptologists in relation to biographies Dawson is writing and draft replies from Newberry; requesting collection sale catalogues.
Note:
MSS 12/17 is also numbered 343
MSS 12/18 is also numbered A.199
MSS 12/19 is also numbered 343a
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Former reference code
MSS 12/14-45