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Add MS 40637
- Record Id:
- 032-002092448
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002092448
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000051.0x000333
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 40637
- Title:
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EIGHTEEN letters from A[usten] H[enry] Layard (G.C.B. 1878) to Sir Stratford Canning (afterwards Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe), Ambassador at Constantinople, relative chiefly to his excavations at Nimroud, of which an account was published in Nineveh and Its Remains, 1849; Pera, 30 Sept. 1845-Mosul, 1 June 1846. Preceded (f. 1) by a letter from the Rev. J[osiah] Forshall, Secretary of the British Museum, to Sir Stratford Canning, returning Layard's letters after transcription, 23 Oct. 1846. Paper; ff. 85. Quarto (f. 1) and octavo. Presented by C. Paget, Esq.
- Scope & Content:
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Nimrud, Assyria: Letters from A. H. Layard to Sir S. Canning rel. to excavations at: 1845-1846.
Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Letters to Sir S. Canning: 1845-1846.
Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe: Letters to, from A. H. Layard: 1845-1846.
Antiquities: Letters of A. H. Layard to Sir S. Canning rel. to his excavations at Nimroud: 1845, 1846.
includes:
- f. 1 Reverend Josiah Forshall, Keeper of Manuscripts, afterwards Secretary, British Museum: Letter to Sir S. Canning: 1846.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002092448
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002092448
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1845
- End Date:
- 1846
- Date Range:
- 1845-1846
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Custodial History:
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Cecil Paget: Presented: in 1922.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Canning, Stratford, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, diplomat, 1786-1880
Forshall, Josiah, Reverend Keeper of Manuscripts afterwards Sec British Museum
Layard, Austen Henry, GCB, archaeologist and politician, 1817-1894
Paget, Cecil - Places:
- Nimrud, Assyria