Record

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Collection
Reference Number	MS ADD 113
Title	Petrie Letters
Date	1921-1924
Description	Correspondence with John Sebelien.
Extent	12 letters
AdminHistory	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.
Acquisition	Given by Mrs Holford of Surbiton in March 1967.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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).
FindingAids	Collection level description.

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