Scope and Contents 81 glass slides in two wooden boxes, marked in hand on the outside 'Slides for talk on Asia Minor'. Includes index to (most of) the slides on three sheets. One box contained numbered slides and a corresponding indexed list, including additional slides which appears to correspond with some slides in the second (unnumbered) box. Some of these are similar or identical to plates in the published 1933 volume relating to the expeditions. Where possible, titles are those from the handwritten...

Scope and Contents 4 half plate images of stone reliefs on early Byzantine monuments in Constantinople/Istanbul (the kathisma on the obelisk of Thedosius, taken in situ by AJBW who put his finger over the lens) 3 half plate images of ancient fortification walls in the landscape 10 smaller prints with images featuring a large church or monastery (4 copies of this image), grape vines (2 copies of this image), a small port town, a rocky outcrop in a rural setting, Mount Lykabettos (Λυκαβηττός) seen from...

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Watercolour landscape sketches, and observational notes with pencil sketches, made by Koehler during his time in the environs of Istanbul in 1799-1800, whilst serving in the British army.

Scope and Contents Letter written over several days from 6 to 11 November 1944. Includes envelope postmarked 21 November and two photographs of Guthrie in the Istanbul Embassy gardens and with two female colleagues in Yildiz Park (see previous letter), both October 1944. As work has lightened, it has been decided to close the offices on Sunday afternoons and he describes a visit with John [Hilton] to see two Byzantine churches and playing chess in the evenings. He describes entertaining several Allied guests...

Scope and Contents Guthrie is happy with work, better than being a temporary assistant, and his domestic life in Istanbul. They have now replaced Francoise with Yaroslav (as cook). He describes Constantinople as ‘probably the most interesting city in the world’ and one of the most beautiful. He talks about how busy he is at work with a ‘voluminous monthly report’ and an American with a number of complaints and misunderstandings who needed ‘soothing’. Guthrie describes a naval man, who organized the schooner...

Scope and Contents He has been Christmas shopping to the bazaars to find things from Adele's list, with the help of Philip Ullyot. He describes a recent concert of European music he had attended with a group from the Embassy - a rare event. (There is a theatre which performs classical plays but only with Turkish translations.) These have been his only outings outside work, which he has been enjoying, along with sharing the flat with John [Hilton], but he is looking forward to the transition home via the London...

Scope and Contents His last letter had gone to Ankara and then been returned rather than being sent to O’Brien, so this and his previous letter will be sent at the same time. He had visited the Marmara islands with one of the officers and a secretary on his day off. He describes the plant life on the island, a cove they visited and the food they ate. A number of people at his office have rented a space in a house so they can stay overnight. He talks about another excursion he took to old Stamboul [Istanbul]...

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Addressed 'Stambul', dated 11 January 1936. Stewart has called upon Halif Bey and Taksim Öz. He went with Bittel to the bazaars and they both bought some antiquities - he discusses some of his own cermic purchases in detail. He discusses Western Anatolian Bronze Age chronology. He encloses a draft report (for the Wilkins Board?) and asks AJBW to comment on it and to bring the appropriate people's attention to it.

Scope and Contents Addressed "Stambul', dated 22 March 1936. Stewart has spent a month at Balikesir and in this letter provides a very detailed account of all the small sites he visted within the plain of Balikesir. He also describes in detail the Balikesir-Yortan ware cemetery and the type of finds found there. He is considering a dig with Bittel at Baba Köy in April. He is struggling to identify Classical sherds and will photograph extensively to support further investigation in the future. He did not...

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Addressed 'Vagan Li-Kook, Galata, Stamboul', dated 4 January 1936. Stewart has called upon 'Aziz Bey' (Bey Aziz Ogan, Director General of the National Museum of Istanbul) who will provide an introduction to Hamid Karsay Bey. He has also visited Professor Gabrielle (sic) of the French Institute who introduced him to Pierre Devambez. Stewart describes the displays in the National Museum. The Stewarts dined with the Bittels and discussed the finds at the cemetery of Balikesir.

Scope and Contents Addressed "Istanbul', dated 20 January 1936. Stewart writes with enthusiasm about his application for the Jerusalem job and also about the Benaki gold bowl and whether it is genuine or not. Athens has grown on him and he has enjoyed the company of Peter Megaw and Walton and praises Helen Thomas's expertise in Bronze Age pottery. He also writes warmly of Hamid Zubain but lists all the fTurkish frontier areas for which one cannot gain an excavation permit; even for Anatolia the process is time...

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Addressed "Stambul', dated 29 January 1936. Stewart is still awaiting a permit from Ankara and discusses the progress - or not - of new antiquities laws. Meanwhile, he is photographing pottery in the Natonal Museum. He believes Vounos (Cyprus) will be a key site for comparison with Anatolian finds. He mentions the death of King George V.

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Addresed 'Wagon-lits, Galata, Istanbul', dated 2 January 1936. He has met with Dr Schecle and Karl Bittel. There are rising political tensions between Italy and Turkey. Gaining an excavation permit is fraught with dificulties. Stewart would like to drop a test trench to 'hunt' for Jortan (Yortan) or another site 'at or near Balikesir.' He sketches a possible itinerary for the next months, including visiting W. Lamb at Afyon. He has visited Haghia Sofia and the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.

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Dated 3 February 1936. Hamid Kersay (Karsai) has granted him a permit for Balikesir. The Yortan pottery in the National Museum will be photographed. He discusses a proposal made by Professor Baxter to found a British School in Istanbul and Stewart gives all his reasons why he thinks this would be a bad idea. He went to visit the (Greek Orthodox) Patriarch.

Scope and Contents Guthrie describes finally being in Istanbul, after 12 years and having ’mentally’ worked in the country, as dreamlike. It is ‘half familiar [yet] seems stranger than if it was an entirely new city’. He describes his love for Adele and quotes a passage from ‘The ring and the book’ by [Robert] Browning. He gives a detailed description of his journey from Cairo to Istanbul, travelling via the Taurus Express, naming the places that he travelled through, even for a short time, with some more...

Scope and Contents Includes one letter to Adele (Ogilvy) the year before they married but mainly covering the wartime period when they were separated by Adele and the children moving to Wales and, from 1944, when he was posted to Istanbul. Letters in the summer of 1940 are addressed to Mrs Guthrie at Capel Curig in Wales. Also includes several letters to Robin and Anne from their father during the war. Letters from Cairo and Istanbul from 1944 to early 1945 include much detail about daily life, colleagues and...

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Includes: personal papers and family correspondence, photographs and slides from travels, including holidays, speeches and reviews re Guthrie's various publications, with some limited papers from his tenure as Master.