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1. Add MS 38931-39164

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 38931-39164
Title:
THE LAYARD PAPERS. CORRESPONDENCE and papers, private and official, of Sir Austen Henry Layard, P.C., G.C.B., D.C.L., the discoverer of Nineveh (b. 1817, d. 1894). From 1842 to 1845 he was unofficially employed on diplomatic missions by Sir S. Canning, afterw. (1852) Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, British Ambassador at Constantinople; he was an unpaid attaché at the Embassy 1847-1849, and a paid attaché 1849-1852. His excavations in Assyria were begun in Oct. 1845 for Lord Stratford and co...
Scope & Content:
Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Official and private correspondence and papers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, Spanish, Syriac, and Turkish
Date Range:
[19th century]
Extent:
248 items

2. Add MS 38987-38996

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Add MS 38987-38996
Title:
LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. LVI1-LXVI. General Correspondence (including minutes) of A. H. Layard during the years 1861-1869, while M.P. for Southwark, Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under (a) the 1st Earl Russell and (b) the 4th Earl of Clarendon, and First Commissioner of Works (Dec. 1868-Oct. 1869). Some drafts of his replies are among the letters. The volumes from 38992, f. 164, onwards include a long correspondence relating to the erection of the Albert Memorial in...
Scope & Content:
Victoria of England: Correspondence and papers of Sir A. H. Layard as Under Sec. for Foreign Affairs, First Commissioner of Works, etc.: 1852-1869.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, and Syriac
Date Range:
1861-1869
Extent:
10 items