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1. Add MS 38931-39164

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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 38951-38962

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Add MS 38951-38962
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LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. XXI-XXXII. Correspondence of Sir A. H. Layard with [Edmund Hammond,] Baron Hammond (1874), Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (1854-1873); 1861-1890. Mostly autograph. Layard writes of this correspondence on 6 June, 1881 (38961, f. 305): "You have been my only correspondent to whom I have written fully and freely for many years past, and my letters to you, as I keep no journal, contain the only record of my life during that time." Quarto and small quarto. Twel...
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Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Correspondence with Lord Hammond: 1856-1890. Edmund Hammond, Baron Hammond; diplomatist: Correspondence with Sir A. H. Layard: 1856-1890. Mary Enid Evelyn Layard, d 1912 wife of Sir A H Layard: Letters of Sir A. H. Layard, etc.: copi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1861-1890
Extent:
12 items

3. Add MS 38957

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Vol. XXVII (ff. 223). 1879-17 Aug. 1881. includes: f. 47 b Jacob van Wyngaerden, Heer van Benthuyse, Dutch Ambasador to England: Patent of knighthood for: 1621: Lat.: Draft.f. 52 Nerses, Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople: Letter to Lord Hammond: 1879.: Fr.: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 38975

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Vol. XLV (ff. 383). Dec. 1838- Mar. 1844. Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe: Correspondence with Sir A. H. Layard: 1842-1879. includes: f. 1 John Murray, publisher; d.1892: Correspondence with Sir A. H. Layard: 1838-1891. f. 2 James Baxter, of the Russian Education Department...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Dec 1838-Mar 1844
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 38975-38980

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Add MS 38975-38980
Title:
LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. XLV-L. Correspondence of A. H. Layard, as traveller, explorer, attaché at Constantinople, etc., 1838-1852. Some letters not included in this collection, to his mother and to his travelling-companion, E. L. Mitford, are printed in the Autobiogr., etc. Besides some drafts of replies there are included the originals of Layard's letters to Henry Ross. The names of all the writers are given in the Index to the present Catalogue. Six volumes. Folio and quarto.
Scope & Content:
Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Correspondence with Lord Stratford de Redcliffe: 1842-1879.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1838-1852
Extent:
6 items