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1. Add MS 38931-39164

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Add MS 38931-39164
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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 39012-39033

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Add MS 39012-39033
Title:
LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. LXXXII-CIII. General Correspondence of Sir A. H. Layard while Ambassador at Constantinople, Apr. 1877-May, 1880. For printed correspondence see 39144-39160. The names of the writers are given in the Index. Twenty-two volumes.
Scope & Content:
Abdul Hamid II; Sultan of Turkey: Correspondence and papers of Sir A. H. Layard as Ambassador at Constantinople: 1877-1880.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish
Date Range:
Apr 1877-May 1880
Extent:
22 items

3. Add MS 39028

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Vol. XCVIII (ff. 283). Aug., Sept. 1879. includes: ff. 1, 3, 25, 35 Hugues Marie Henri Fournier, French diplomatist: Letters to, Sir A. H. Layard: 1878-1880.: Fr. ff. 7, 74, 116, 155, 201, 203, 266 Thomas Michell, CB, attaché at St. Petersburg, afterwards Consul-General at Philippopolis: Corre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
Aug 1879-Sep 1879
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 39029

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Vol. XCIX (ff. 334). Oct., Nov. 1879. includes: f. 1 Sir Edward Baldwin Malet, 4th Baronet; KCB; diplomatist: Letters to Sir A. H. Layard: 1878-1881. ff. 3, 102, 206, 334 Noel Temple Moore, Consul for Palestine: Correspondence with Sir A. H. Layard: 1879, 1880. ff. 5, 153, 210 Said, Pasha: Cor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
Oct 1879-Nov 1879
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 39055

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Scope & Content:
LAYARD PAPERS. Vol. CXXV (ff. 73). Miscellaneous letters and papers,in general of extra large size, supplementary to preceding volumes; 1834-1883. The chief contents are: 1. Layard's articles of clerkship with Benjamin Austen, solicitor, of Gray's Inn, 20 Jan. 1834. f. 1. 2. Certificate of Lay...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Persian, and Turkish
Date Range:
1834-1883
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 39075

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Scope & Content:
LAYARD PAPERS. Vol. CXLV (ff. 237). 1. Notes on art subjects, partly in Sir A. H. Layard's hand. f. 1. 2. Drafts of poems, etc., including a [italics]copy[/italics] (f. 81) of Walter Savage Landor's poem 'To Layard, Discoverer of Nineveh' ([italics]Works,[/italics] 1876, viii, p. 257), address...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1879-1880
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 39077

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Add MS 39077
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LAYARD PAPERS. CXLVII (ff. 161). Miscellaneous papers and accompts relating to A. H. Layard's excavations for the Trustees of the British Museum, circ. 1846-1851. Among them are: 1. Minutes of meeting of the Trustees, etc., signed by Rev. Josiah Forshall, Secretary, 1846, 1848. ff. 14, 29, 30. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
c 1846-c 1851
Extent:
1 item