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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39061-39063
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CXXXI-CXXXIII. "An Inquiry into the origin, history, language and doctrines of the Chaldaean or Nestorian Tribes of Kurdistan" : a treatise in A. H. Layard's hand (except 39063, fr. 23-42), apparently unpublished aft. 1843 (ib. f. 35b). Three volumes. Paper; ff. 48, 55, 42. Note-books, half-bound with green boards and label of a Fiume bookseller. Quarto.
Scope & Content:: Nestorians: Letters, treatise, and notes by Sir A. H. Layard on: 1843-circ. 1845. Antiquities: Papers of Sir A. H. Lavard rel. to his excavations in Assyria, etc.: 1840-1862.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: after 1843
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39072-39073
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CXLII, CXLIII (ff. 262, 422). MSS. of, and notes for, a course of seven Lectures on Art delivered by A. H. Layard at the Royal Institution, Albemarle St., in April, 1859. Two volumes, vol. i containing the MSS. of Lectures 1-4, and vol. ii those of Lectures 5-7 (the last two chiefly notes), together with rough notes for the whole series and for lectures on Pompeii and Savonarola. Quarto.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Apr 1859
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39079-39080
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CXLIX, CL (ff. 260, 221). Assyrian inscriptions. Two volumes, Vol. I containing transcripts, mostly by Layard, of many of the texts published in Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Character from Assyrian Monuments discovered by A. H. Layard, London, British Museum, 1851, arranged in the order of the printed volume, and other miscellaneous notes; and Vol. II a glossary of words occurring in inscriptions, cut from a printed work with MS. notes; circ. 1847-9. Folio and quarto.
Scope & Content:: Nineveh, Assyria: Papers rel. to Sir A. H. Layard's excavations at: circ. 1845-1851. Assyria: Papers rel. to Sir A. H. Layard's excavations, etc., in: circ. 1845-1851. Antiquities: Papers of Sir A. H. Lavard rel. to his excavations in Assyria, etc.: 1840-1862.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1847-c 1849
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39083-39088
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CLIII-CLVIII. Six notebooks of A. H. Layard, circ. 1841-1851. Holograph. Paper; ff. 63, 75, 75, 40, 29, 50. Duodecimo and smaller.
Scope & Content:: Antiquities: Papers of Sir A. H. Lavard rel. to his excavations in Assyria, etc.: 1840-1862.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: c 1841-c 1851
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39089 A-H
Title:: ). LAYARD PAPERS. Vol. CLIX (A-H). Eight notebooks of A. H. Layard, circ. 1842-1851. Holograph. Paper. 51/4 in. x 31/4 in. Green binding, with clasps.
Scope & Content:: Antiquities: Papers of Sir A. H. Lavard rel. to his excavations in Assyria, etc.: 1840-1862.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1842-c 1851
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39090 A-G
Title:: ). LAYARD. PAPERS. Vol. CLX (A-G). Seven notebooks of A. H. Layard, circ. 1842-1851. Holograph. Paper. The largest (F) 41/2 in. x 3 in. Black, red and (G) buff binding.
Scope & Content:: Antiquities: Papers of Sir A. H. Lavard rel. to his excavations in Assyria, etc.: 1840-1862.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1842-c 1851
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39092 A-B
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vol. CLXII (A, B). A. H. Layard’s journal; 1840-1841.
Scope & Content:: Voyages and Travels: Journals in the Near East,, by Sir A. H. Layard: 1840-1850. Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Journals in the Near East: 1840-1850. Antiquities: Papers of Sir A. H. Lavard rel. to his excavations in Assyria, etc.: 1840-1862.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1840-1841
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39098-39100
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CLXVIII-CLXX. Additional general correspondence of Sir A. H. Layard, July, 1891-May, 1893, following upon Add. 39041. At the end is some later correspondence of Lady Layard. Three volumes. Folio.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: Jul 1891-May 1893
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39101-39120
Title:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39121-39124
Title:: LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CXCI-CXCIV. Letter-books of semi-official correspondence (with occasional dispatches) from A. H. Layard, as Ambassador. at Madrid, to successive Foreign Secretaries, viz. George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, Granville George Leveson Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, and Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby; 21 Nov. 1869-12 Mar. 1877. A certain number of letters to other official personages are interspersed. Four volumes. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Isabella II of Spain: Amadeo, etc. Correspondence and memoirs, etc., of Sir A. H. Layard as Minister at Madrid: 1869-1877.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 21 Nov 1869-12 Mar 1877
Extent:: 4 items

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