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481. Add MS 37274-37318

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WELLESLEY PAPERS: correspondence and papers, official, political, and private, of Richard Colley Wellesley (b. 1760, cl. 1842), 2nd Earl of Mornington (1781), cr. Baron Wellesley in 1797 and Marquis Wellesley in 1799
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He was Governor General of Bengal, 1797-1805; Ambassador Extraordinary to the Central Junta of Spain, April-Dec. 1809; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Dec. 1809-Feb. 1812; and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1821-1828, 1833-1834. Forty-five volumes. The collection is classified as follows.- ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Greek, Modern, Latin, Persian, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1697-1842]
Extent:
50 items

482. Add MS 37285

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WELLESLEY PAPERs. Vol. XII. Correspondence and papers relating to Persian affairs; 1800-1815, 1837. The correspondence consists mostly of letters to the Marquis Wellesley from Sir Gore Ouseley when in attendance upon the Persian Ambassador to England in 1809, and as Ambassador Extraordinary to P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1800-1837
Extent:
1 item

483. 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

484. Add MS 39055

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LAYARD PAPERS. Vol. CXXV (ff. 73). Miscellaneous letters and papers,in general of extra large size, supplementary to preceding volumes; 1834-1883. The chief contents are: 1. Layard's articles of clerkship with Benjamin Austen, solicitor, of Gray's Inn, 20 Jan. 1834. f. 1. 2. Certificate of Lay...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Persian, and Turkish
Date Range:
1834-1883
Extent:
1 item

485. Add MS 39101-39120

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LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CLXXI-CXC. Semi-official letters from British ambassadors, consuls, etc., to A. H. Layard, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreian Affairs under (a) the 1st Earl Russell and (b) the 4th Earl of Clarendon ; together with some drafts of his own in reply, Aug. 1861-June, 1866. For the bulk of Layard's correspondence with Russell and Clarendon; see above, 38987-38993 passim ; for the bulk of his correspondence with Lord Hammond, Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Aff...
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, Italian, Persian, and Spanish
Date Range:
Aug 1861-Jun 1866
Extent:
20 items

486. Add MS 39117

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Scope & Content:
Vol. CLXXXVII (ff. 377). Sept.-Dec. 1865. includes: ff. 1-187 passim, 236 Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Correspondence with Lord J. Russell: 1853-1871. ff. 1-187 passim, 236 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell; Prime Minister: Correspondence with Sir A. H. Layard: 185...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
Sep 1865-Dec 1865
Extent:
1 item

487. Add MS 39871-39904

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WARREN HASTINGS PAPERS, supplementary to the collection in Add. MSS. 28973-29236. They comprise official letter-books, private correspondence of Warren Hastings and his wife, diaries, poems and other literary remains, etc. The papers were used by G. R. Gleig, Memoirs of the Life of Warren Hastings, 1841; by Sir Charles Lawson, The Private Life of Warren Hastings, 1905; and by Lord Curzon, British Government in India, 1925. Thirty three volumes and three deeds in a box. Bequeathed by Miss Mar...
Scope & Content:
India: Supplementary correspondence and papers of Warren Hastings: 1774-1818. Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India: Supplementary official and private correspondence and papers: 1774-1818.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
[1740-1836]
Extent:
51 items

488. Add MS 39891

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Scope & Content:
WARREN HASTINGS PAPERS. Vol. XXI (ff. 339). Literary Remains. Mostly in the hand of Warren Hastings and of his composition. The chief contents are: 1. On Oriental subjects: (a) " The History of Rooroo and Promod- Bora, taken from the eighth and ninth chapters of the first book of the Mahà-baurut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 item

489. Add MS 39892

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WARREN HASTINGS PAPERS. Vol. XXII (ff. 141). Papers relating to India and the East, viz. : 1. " Journal of a journey from Petersburgh to Reshd "; 26 Feb. 1740-28 June 1742. The journal of George Thompson, differing somewhat from the journal of the journey of the two merchants, Thompson and Reyno...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1740-1827
Extent:
1 item

490. Add MS 40181-40617

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CORRESPONDENCE and papers, official and private, of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bart. (1830), Prime Minister. (b. 1788, d. 1850). He was Under-Secretary for War and the Colonies 1810-1812; Privy Councillor, and Privy Councillor (Ireland), 1812; Chief Secretary for Ireland 1812-1818; Commissioner of the Treasury for Ireland 1814-1817 ; Home Secretary, with Cabinet rank, 1822- 1827; Home Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons 1828- 1830; First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor...
Scope & Content:
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet; Prime Minister: Correspondence and papers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Turkish
Date Range:
[1807-1899]
Extent:
437 items

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