Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts / Level: [36] Series - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38808 A-C
Title:: MISCELLANEOUS Papers from the library of H.S. Ashbee. Three volumes. Paper.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Spanish
Date Range:: 17th century-19th century
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38828-38829
Title:: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL notes on erotic books in H. S. Ashbee’s collection, by J. C. Reddie. Arranged alphabetically under titles, with an Appendix (Vol. II, f. 529). Two volumes. Paper; ff. 604, 584. Quarto. XIX cent. Ashbee's bookplates.
Scope & Content:: James Campbell Reddie, author and book collector: Notes on erotic books in H. S. Ashbee's collection: 19th cent. Bibliography: Notes on erotic books in H. S. Ashbee's collection, by J. C. Reddie.: 19th cent. Henry Spencer Ashbee, bibliophile: Bibliographical notes on Ashbee's collection by J. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38916-38926
Title:: PARLIAMENTARY JOURNAL-LETTERS Of Sir Richard Temple, Bart., M.P. for Evesham 1885-1892, and for the Kingston Division of Surrey 1892-1895, written to his wife, giving a vivid description, from a Conservative standpoint, of the proceedings in Gladstone's two Home Rule Parliaments and the intermediate Salisbury Government, 1886-1895. Vol. I has a photograph of Arthur Wellesley Peel (Viscount Peel 1895) as Speaker prefixed and Temple's bookplate of arms. Most of the volumes have a note of prese...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1886-1895
Extent:: 11 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38927-38928
Title:: CHARACTER-SKETCHES by the same author of prominent members in the House of Commons, containing impressions of 176 personages. Many of the same persons appear in both volumes, the first carried down to 1892, the second dated 1893-1895. The arrangement is explained in the introduction to each volume. A selection of 112 sketches has been published in Letters and Character Sketches, see above. Ff. i + 201 and 202. Quarto.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1892-1895
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38932-38933
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. II, III (ff. 371, 308). Memoirs, by Sir A. H. Layard on his mission to Spain, 1869-1877. Holograph. Vol. II ends at May, 1873. Preceded (ff. 2-5) by notes, and by the following heading (f. 1) : "The Story of My Mission to Spain. This MS. is in a very rough and unfinished state, and has not even been read over. A. H. L. Venice, Decr. 15, 1883." In accordance with the desire of the writer, expressed at the beginning of his autobiography (38931, f. 3b), neither these memoir...
Scope & Content:: Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Memoirs: 1817-1883.: Autogr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1869-1877
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38935-38938
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. V-VIII. Memoirs by Sir A. H. Layard on his embassy to Turkey, 1877-1880. Holograph. Not yet (1921) published. Continued from Vol. IV, f. 150. Quarto, except Vol. VIII (folio). Four volumes, arranged as follows:
Scope & Content:: Abdul Hamid II; Sultan of Turkey: Correspondence and papers of Sir A. H. Layard as Ambassador at Constantinople: 1877-1880. Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Memoirs: 1817-1883.: Autogr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1877-1880
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38942-38943
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. XII, XIII (ff. 51, 50). Semi-official letters from A. H. Layard, chiefly to Sir S. Canning (see, above, 38940) and Sir Henry Ellis, Principal Librarian of the British Museum, relating to the excavations carried out under their direction 1849-1852. Copies and drafts, some autograph. Included are copies of accompts, etc. Two volumes. Folio. Binding of 38943 limp crimson morocco.
Scope & Content:: Mary Enid Evelyn Layard, d 1912 wife of Sir A H Layard: Letters of Sir A. H. Layard, etc.: copied by.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [19th century]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38945-38946
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. XV, XVI (ff. 297, 350). Correspondence of Sir A. H. Layard with G. T. Clark, engineer and archaeologist; 1849-1894. Clark's letters (38945) are autograph; Layard's (38946) are type-written copies. There, are no letters from Clark between 1853 and 1883. From 1852 to 1897 Clark administered the Dowlais estate and ironworks, co. Glamorgan, for the Guest family, of which Lady Layard was a member. He published, in 1884, Medieval Military Architecture in England. Two volumes. ...
Scope & Content:: Mary Enid Evelyn Layard, d 1912 wife of Sir A H Layard: Letters of Sir A. H. Layard, etc.: copied by.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1849-1894
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38949-38950
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. XIX, XX (ff. 173, 162). Letters from Sir A. H. Layard to Sir W. H. Gregory, K.C.M.G., Vol. XIX, 1860-1877; Vol. XX, 1887-1890. Type-written copies. Gregory was M.P. for Dublin 1842-1847, for co. Galway 1857-1871, and Governor of Ceylon 1871-1877. He was a Trustee of the National Gallery 1867-1892. For additional letters from Layard to Gregory, 1891, 1892, cut from this volume and reserved, see 39097, ff. 28-94. For Gregory's letters to Layard, 1875-1892, see his Autobiog...
Scope & Content:: Mary Enid Evelyn Layard, d 1912 wife of Sir A H Layard: Letters of Sir A. H. Layard, etc.: copied by.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [19th century]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38951-38962
Title:: 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...
Scope & Content:: 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

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