File NEWB2/339 - Gunn, Battiscombe George - correspondence

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NEWB2/339

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Gunn, Battiscombe George - correspondence

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  • 1920 - 1941 (Creation)

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2 cm, 66 letters

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Newberry, Percy Edward
(1869-1949)

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Correspondence from Battiscombe George Gunn (1884-1950) including relating to excavation work at Amarna and Asyut (1922); Sethe's book Urgeschichte und aelteste Religion der Aegypter and his opinion on Newberry's theories on labdanum, and Min and the thunderbolt; Gunn's wife and child; application for position including the readership at Oxford University; work at the University Museum, Philadelphia; Newberry's house in Cairo; work at Cairo Museum; travel; work at Oxford University; requesting articles and reviews for the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology; obituary of Howard Carter; and work by Rosalind Moss on the Topographical Bibliography.

Note:
MSS 22/10 is also numbered 325
MSS 22/11 is also numbered A.9
MSS 22/15 is also numbered A.6
MSS 22/27 is also numbered A.164
MSS 22/28 is also numbered A.165
MSS 22/29 is also numbered A.169

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      MSS 22/10-75

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