File NEWB2/548 - Newberry, John E. - correspondence

0.5 cm, 34 letters

Correspondence from John E. Newberry (Newberry's brother) including relating to his work for Henri Edouard Naville in Deir el Bahari, people he met whilst travelling in Egypt, forwarding correspondence and news to Newberry including relating to the work of the Egypt Exploration Society, and his career as an architect.

Includes correspondence relating to: the work of Marcus Blackden; visitors to excavation site including Lord and Lady Edward Churchill (1890); Howard Carter including his manners (1893); excavation at Deir el Bahari including a sketch plan of the house he was staying in with Naville and David George Hogarth's report to the Egypt Exploration Society (1893); health of his and Newberry's Mother; purchase of a house in London.

Also includes several letters from Newberry to his brother John including on courting and engagement to his first wife Nelly (1893-4) and on the tombs at Assiut (n.d.).

Note:
MSS 33/18 is also numbered 66 and 34
MSS 33/22 is also numbered 18
MSS 33/26 is also numbered 104
MSS 33/27 is also numbered 111
MSS 33/30 is also numbered 1
MSS 33/31 is also numbered 17
MSS 33/32 is also numbered A.214
MSS 33/33 is also numbered A.216
MSS 33/34 is also numbered A.217
MSS 33/35 is also numbered A.206
MSS 33/36 is also numbered A.264
MSS 33/37 is also numbered 9a