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