Four leaves, each measuring 12⅜ × 7¾ inches (31 × 20 cm). Each leaf is ruled with about thirty-nine lines that are mostly faded. The second and third leaves bear matching irregularities in their cut, indicating they were at one point a single sheet that was then cut in two. Each leaf was inscribed on one side, while the other side was left blank. Phelps added the title “Egyptian Alphabet” to the first leaf. On the recto of each leaf, three hand-drawn, vertical lines divide the page into four columns of varying width. These lines were presumably drawn by , who wrote the headings for the columns. On the first leaf, Phelps added the column headings “Character”, “lett[e]r”, “Sound”, and “Explanation”. In addition to the title and these column headings, Phelps added the words “first degree” at the top of the first leaf. The headings and “first degree” appear to have been written at the same time. The title, “Egyptian Alphabet”, is written more deliberately, with broadly inscribed strokes and very little slope, which suggests that Phelps added it at a different time. On subsequent leaves, Phelps provided column headings only for the “character” and “sound” columns. The “character” column is consistently larger than needed, and the sound column is frequently too small for the lengthy words inscribed there. One horizontal line forms a rule on the first leaf, separating the first and second parts of the first degree. On subsequent leaves, parts are set off only by headings. Phelps also paginated each leaf on the upper right corner.

Following the production of this document, the four leaves were attached together with as many as three pins. Pinholes along the right side of the rectos of the leaves align with one another. Green oxidation and impressions from pinheads on the first leaf indicate it was placed first in this attached collection of leaves, suggesting that the leaves were arranged in the order in which they were paginated. Pinholes in the same location on the Egyptian Counting document indicate that document was attached to and stored with this one. Significant staining is present on the left side of the recto of the first leaf; foxing, wear, and other staining are present throughout the leaves. By the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, most of the leaves of the Egyptian Alphabet documents were docketed in blue ink with letters of the alphabet from A through I and T through X. Egyptian Alphabet–C bears the letters C through F on the upper right corner of each recto side of the leaves. The handwriting in which this labeling is inscribed is similar to that of early-twentieth-century apostle James E. Talmage. This document was presumably stored with the Egyptian material mentioned in periodic inventories of the Historian’s Office, which suggests continuous institutional custody.