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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 39142

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Add MS 39142
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Scope & Content:
LAYARD PAPERS. Vol. CCXII (ff. 290). Papers, political and financial, relating to the Turkish Empire; 1870-1878. Folio. includes: f. 1 Halim, Pasha: Contract with the Khedive: 1870.: Fr.: Copy. ff. 4-9 Abdul Hamid II; Sultan of Turkey: Taxation and population lists in Turkish Arabia: 1879. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1870-1878
Extent:
1 item

3. 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