He employed numerous archivists to copy, translate, and arrange eighty-seven volumes of correspondence related to his paternal ancestors from European archives, and later to collect old documents from Egyptian archives into a what became the Royal Archives in the 1930s.
Han beskæftigede adskillige arkivarer der kopierede, oversatte og arrangerede syvogfirs bind af korrespondance vedrørende hans forfædre fra Europæiske arkiver, og senere samlede de dokumenter fra Egyptiske arkiver til det der blev Royal Archives i 1930'erne.