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1. Add MS 38931-39164

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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 39098-39100

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Add MS 39098-39100
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

3. Add MS 39034-39048

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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

4. Add MS 39142-39143

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Add MS 39142-39143
Title:
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

5. Add MS 39135-39140

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Add MS 39135-39140
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

6. Add MS 39121-39124

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Add MS 39121-39124
Title:
LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CXCI-CXCIV. Letter-books of semi-official correspondence (with occasional dispatches) from A. H. Layard, as Ambassador. at Madrid, to successive Foreign Secretaries, viz. George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, Granville George Leveson Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, and Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby; 21 Nov. 1869-12 Mar. 1877. A certain number of letters to other official personages are interspersed. Four 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 and French
Date Range:
21 Nov 1869-12 Mar 1877
Extent:
4 items

7. Add MS 39083-39088

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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

8. Add MS 38997-39011

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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

9. Add MS 39130-39132

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Add MS 39130-39132
Title:
LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CC-CCII (ff. 211, 242, 101). Letter-books of "private" or semi-official correspondence of Sir A. H. Layard while Ambassador at Constantinople, chiefly with members of the diplomatic, or consular service; 30 Apr. 1877-29 Nov. 1878; 2 Jan. 1878-19 Jan. 1879 ; 22 Jan. 1879-25 May, 1880. Folio.
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:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Apr 1877-25 May 1880
Extent:
3 items

10. Add MS 39133-39134

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Add MS 39133-39134
Title:
LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CCIII, CCIV (ff. xii + 315, viii + 269). Pressed copies of other "private" or semi-official letters of Sir A. H. Layard at Constantinople; 18 June, 1879-19 May, 1880; 24 June, 1879-25 May, 1880. Quarto.
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:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Jun 1879-25 May 1880
Extent:
2 items