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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 38981-38986

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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

3. Add MS 38984

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Add MS 38984
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Scope & Content:
Vol. LIV (ff. 378). 21 May, 1855-Apr. 1856. University of Aberdeen: Correspondence of Sir A. H. Layard as Rector of Marischal College etc.: 1855-1857. includes: f. 1 George Dursted, of Margate: Letter to Sir A. H. Layard: 1855. f. 3 John Arthur Roebuck, MP: Letters to Sir A. H. Layard: 1855, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
21 May 1855-Apr 1856
Extent:
1 item

4. 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

5. Add MS 39137

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Add MS 39137
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Scope & Content:
Vol. CCVII (ff. 287). Jan.-June, 1878. includes: ff. 1, 3, 78 Said, Pasha: Correspondence with Sir A. H. Layard: 1877-1881. ff. 9, 11, 16, 30, 33, 49, 176, 200 Charles Stuart Aubrey Abbott, 3rd Baron Tenterden of Hendon: letters to Sir A. H. Layard: 1873-1881. f. 19 Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Thoma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
Jan 1878-Jun 1878
Extent:
1 item