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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38981-38986
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. LI-LVI. Private Correspondence of A. H. Layard, as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, M.P. for Aylesbury, etc., 1852-1860. The names of the writers are included in the Index. Six volumes. Folio and quarto.
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, German, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:: 1852-1860
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38997-39011
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. LXVII-LXXXI. General Correspondence of A. H. Layard, with occasional drafts of his replies, while Minister at Madrid. Oct. 1869-Mar. 1877. The names of the writers are given in the Index. Fifteen volumes. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Isabella II of Spain: Amadeo, etc. Correspondence and memoirs, etc., of Sir A. H. Layard as Minister at Madrid: 1869-1877.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:: Oct 1869-Mar 1877
Extent:: 15 items

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39034-39048
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CIV-CXVIII. Correspondence of Sir A. H. Layard while in retirement, June, 1880- June, 1891. Continued below in the reserved series, 39098-39100. The names of the writers are given in the Index. Fifteen volumes. Folio and quarto.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish
Date Range:: Jun 1880-Jun 1891
Extent:: 15 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39056-39059
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CXXVI-CXXIX. Accompts of Hormuzd Rassam, assistant to A. H. Layard in his excavations (see Dict. Nat. Biogr., supplt. 2, vol. iii), Nov. 1846-Apr. 1851. With notes of settlement added passim by Layard. Four volumes. Paper ; ff. 33, 39, 43, 12. Folio (except 39056, which is small quarto).
Scope & Content:: Hormuzd Rassam, Assyriologist: Accompts, as assistant to Sir A. H. Layard: 1846-1851. Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Accompts at Nineveh: 1846-1852. Accompts: H. Rassam, Layard's assistant at Nineveh: 1846-1851. Accompts: Sir A. H. Layard, at Nineveh: 1846-1852. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Nov 1846-Apr 1851
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39061-39063
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CXXXI-CXXXIII. "An Inquiry into the origin, history, language and doctrines of the Chaldaean or Nestorian Tribes of Kurdistan" : a treatise in A. H. Layard's hand (except 39063, fr. 23-42), apparently unpublished aft. 1843 (ib. f. 35b). Three volumes. Paper; ff. 48, 55, 42. Note-books, half-bound with green boards and label of a Fiume bookseller. Quarto.
Scope & Content:: Nestorians: Letters, treatise, and notes by Sir A. H. Layard on: 1843-circ. 1845. Antiquities: Papers of Sir A. H. Lavard rel. to his excavations in Assyria, etc.: 1840-1862.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: after 1843
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39072-39073
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CXLII, CXLIII (ff. 262, 422). MSS. of, and notes for, a course of seven Lectures on Art delivered by A. H. Layard at the Royal Institution, Albemarle St., in April, 1859. Two volumes, vol. i containing the MSS. of Lectures 1-4, and vol. ii those of Lectures 5-7 (the last two chiefly notes), together with rough notes for the whole series and for lectures on Pompeii and Savonarola. Quarto.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Apr 1859
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39079-39080
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CXLIX, CL (ff. 260, 221). Assyrian inscriptions. Two volumes, Vol. I containing transcripts, mostly by Layard, of many of the texts published in Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Character from Assyrian Monuments discovered by A. H. Layard, London, British Museum, 1851, arranged in the order of the printed volume, and other miscellaneous notes; and Vol. II a glossary of words occurring in inscriptions, cut from a printed work with MS. notes; circ. 1847-9. Folio and quarto.
Scope & Content:: Nineveh, Assyria: Papers rel. to Sir A. H. Layard's excavations at: circ. 1845-1851. Assyria: Papers rel. to Sir A. H. Layard's excavations, etc., in: circ. 1845-1851. Antiquities: Papers of Sir A. H. Lavard rel. to his excavations in Assyria, etc.: 1840-1862.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1847-c 1849
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39083-39088
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CLIII-CLVIII. Six notebooks of A. H. Layard, circ. 1841-1851. Holograph. Paper; ff. 63, 75, 75, 40, 29, 50. Duodecimo and smaller.
Scope & Content:: Antiquities: Papers of Sir A. H. Lavard rel. to his excavations in Assyria, etc.: 1840-1862.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: c 1841-c 1851
Extent:: 6 items

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