Petrie Letters

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0103 MS ADD 113
Held at	: University College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll ›
Full title	: Petrie Letters
Date(s)	: 1921-1924
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 12 letters
Name of creator(s)	: Petrie | Sir | (William Matthew) Flinders | 1853-1942 | Knight | Egyptologist
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Petrie was born in Charlton and educated privately. He worked on many excavation sites, mostly in Egypt. He was Edwards Professor of Egyptology at University College London from 1892 to 1933, and Emeritus Professor from 1933. He published many works on excavation. Petrie was knighted in 1923.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence with John Sebelien.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Given by Mrs Holford of Surbiton in March 1967.

Allied Materials

Related material:

University College London Special Collections also holds correspondence and papers of Sir Flinders Petrie among the records of the Institute of Archaeology (Ref: UCLCA/IA); c27 letters to Sir Francis Galton, 1878-1904 (Ref: GALTON).

The British Library of Political and Economic Science holds letters to C G Seligman relating to the Sudan, c1914-1918 (Ref: Seligman Papers/4/2/2). The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine holds lecture notes, 1912-1913 (Ref: MS 3856). The National Maritime Museum, Manuscripts Section, holds letters to his wife and papers, 1873-1880 (Ref: FLI/101-10). Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, holds correspondence with J L Myres, 1896-1926 (Ref: MSS Myres). Oxford University, Griffith Institute, holds journals (on loan), notebooks (two volumes), and photographs (8 volumes), 1880-1933 (Ref: Petrie MSS); 21 letters to Aquila Dodgson (Ref: Dodgson 1-6). Oxford University, Ashmolean Library, holds eight notebooks. The Palestine Exploration Fund holds correspondence, 1889-1891. The Egypt Exploration Society holds correspondence and papers.

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Source: National Register of Archives.

Rules or conventions:

Date(s) of descriptions:
1999, revised Aug 2001