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1. 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 39071

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LAYARD PAPERS. Vol. CXLI (ff. 13). Sketch-book inscribed 'Henry Layard, Richmond': ten pencil-drawings (the last two unfinished) of landscapes, etc., by A. H. Layard, apparently executed while he was at the school of the Rev. James Bewsher at Richmond, aetat. 12-16, 1829-1833 (see Autobiogr., et...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829-1833
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 39098-39100

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Title:
LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CLXVIII-CLXX. Additional general correspondence of Sir A. H. Layard, July, 1891-May, 1893, following upon Add. 39041. At the end is some later correspondence of Lady Layard. Three volumes. Folio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Jul 1891-May 1893
Extent:
3 items

4. Add MS 39067

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LAYARD PAPERS. Vol. CXXXVII (ff. 71). Book containing arms of Florentine families in colour, alphabetically arranged (Abadinghi-Zati), inscribed (f. 1) 'Henry A. Layard, July 1829, Florence.' Ff. 69-71 are in Layard's later hand and contain only the names of families (in pencil) and not the arms...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1829
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 39072-39073

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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

6. Add MS 39034-39048

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Add MS 39034-39048
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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

7. Add MS 39069

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LAYARD PAPERS. Vol. CXXXIX (ff. 122). 1. Lecture on Italian Literature (not in Sir A. H. Layard's hand). f. 1. 2. Notes on Italian Literature, in connection with the above lecture, and other miscellaneous notes, mostly in Sir A. H. Layard's hand. f. 30. Quarto.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 39142-39143

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Add MS 39142-39143
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LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CCXII, CCXIII (ff. 290, 282). Papers, political and financial, relating to the Turkish Empire; 1870-1878,1879-1883. Folio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1870-1883
Extent:
2 items

9. Add MS 39135-39140

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Title:
LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CCV-CCX. Letters of political import, chiefly addressed to Layard, with many of his draft answers; 4 Jan. 1857-1885. The first portion (ff. 1-130) of Vol. CCV (ff. 255) relates largely to Turkish affairs, especially railway projects in 1857 ; the latter part (ff. 131-end) chiefly to Spain, 1869-1876. The other volumes relate to Turkey.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
4 Jan 1857-1885
Extent:
6 items

10. Add MS 39061-39063

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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