Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1892 - 1947 No letters 1907-1928 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
0.5 cm, 45 letters
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Correspondence mostly to Essie Newberry with some correspondence to Newberry including relating news of his family in the period around and during the Second World War. Also includes reference to other Egyptologists in Germany, excavation work at Aniba, and work on a Coptic Grammar.
Also includes draft reply from Newberry on what he did during the Second World War and damage from bombs (1946).
Several letters are in German.
Also includes photograph of Steindorff at his home in California (1946).
Note:
MSS 42/2 is also numbered A.218
MSS 42/3 is also numbered A.231
MSS 42/4 is also numbered A.254
MSS 42/5 is also numbered 21
MSS 42/6 is also numbered 18
MSS 42/8 is also numbered 33
MSS 42/12 is also numbered A.118
MSS 42/13 is also numbered A.119
MSS 42/14 is also numbered A.117
MSS 42/15 is also numbered A.115