A journal documenting Reginald Campbell Thompson’s trip to Sinai Peninsula, Egypt in 1902, in ten parts. Cover written ‘Kodak Sinaiticvs’.

Additional papers include:

1. Equipment lists with some suppliers.
2. An itinerary listing the places Thompson was in and how long he was there for.
3. Some Arabic verses, story and vocabulary, some translated.
4. A page of expenses, showing Thompson spending £78 on the trip.
5. Several photographs, inserted into the text, mostly labelled but badly faded.
6. A memorandum of agreement between R.C. Thompson and Brahim Abulgadayel to rent three camels and two camel drivers, 9 October 1902.
7. A small note declaring that R.C Thompson paid three pounds for camels, 9 October 1902.
8. A letter to R.C Thompson informing him that a man called Abu Gadaie will not lower his price on camels and that a boat is awaiting him. This paper is marked with “H.B.M. Vice-Consulate Suez”, 9 October 1902.
9. A letter concerning camel hire and permits for the journey, dated 16 September 1902.
10. A letter to R.C Thompson from Amir [Choucri] replying to Thompson's letter informing he had arrived back in London, 2 January 1903.
11. A copy of the memorandum of agreement between R.C. Thompson and Brahim Abulgadayel to rent three camels and two camel drivers, 9 October 1902.
12. Letter in Arabic with the caption “Letter of introduction to El Abdu Kharieme Bey Ohdeh el Bidrashen”.
13. Four shipping invoices from the civil service supply association, showing many of the items R.C Thompson had with him on the trip.
14. Business card for a Mr D. Ballingall of the old Suez hotel.

A set of five notebooks entitled:

• “Assyrian Inscriptions R. C. Thompson, 1894”
• “Algeria 1901”
• “Kodak Sinaiticus or Grads and Ghouls, 1902”
• “Tripoli 1903” and “A year in Nineveh, 1904–1905”
• Newspaper cuttings and assortments of notes and letters

Two printed pamphlets entitled:

• “A list of words and phrases in the Basrah Dialect of Arabic”
• “On traces of an indefinite article in Assyrian”