Letters of Austen Henry Layard to John Murray III with supplied years.

The letters are arranged by the supplied year, and alphabetically by the place where they were written. Where several letters have been written from the same place, and where each letter has a day on which it was written, the letters are further arranged by day. Letters that have no place of writing are placed at the end of the relevant yearly sequence. No further attempt has been made to arrange the letters.

? 1848.

Cheltenham. Folios 1-28.

London (Athenæum). Folios 29-30.

No place, “Thursday”. Folios 31-32.

? 1851.

Aylesbury. Folios 33-34.

Burghley. Folios 35-36.

Carford, Wimbourne. Folios 37-38.

Orton. Folio 39.

Orton Longueville, Peterborough. Folios 40-47.

Uffington House. Folios 48-49.

? 1852.

? Cockroe. Folios 50-51.

Dowlais. Folios 52-53.

Orton Longueville, Peterborough. Folios 54-59.

No place, “Tuesday”. Folios 60-61.

No place, no day. Folios 62-63.

? 1854.

Carford, Wimbourne. Folios 64-65.

? 1856.

Aldermaston. Folios 66-67.

Dowlais. Folios 68-69.

Orton Longueville, Peterborough. Folios 70-71.

? 1857.

No place, “Wednesday”. Folios 72-73.

No place, no day. Folios 74-75.

? 1860.

Eastern Castle. Folio 76.

? 1883.

Ca’ Capello, Venice. Folios 77-80.

Undated letters of Austen Henry Layard to John Murray III.

The letters are arranged alphabetically by the place where they were written. Where several letters have been written from the same place, and where each letter has a day on which it was written, the letters are further arranged by day. Letters that have no place of writing are placed at the end of the sequence. No further attempt has been made to arrange the letters.

Ampthill. Folios 81-84.

Carford, Wimbourne. Folios 85-89.

Dowlais. Folios 90-93.

Eastern Castle. 94-97.

Knoyle, Hindon, Wiltshire. 98-101.

Leeds. 102-103.

London - 130, Piccadilly. Folios 104-105.

Naples. Folios 106-107.

Orton Longueville, Peterborough. Folios 108-111.

Paris, “Thursday, April 24”. Folios 112-113.

Ramsgate. Folios 114-115.

Uffington. Folios 116-119.

Undated letters with no place of writing. Folios 120-131.

Incomplete letters of Austen Henry Layard to ? John Murray III. Folios 132-136.

Miscellaneous letters of and to Austen Henry Layard.

Letter, 19 November 1857, of Austen Henry Layard to Joseph Barclay Pentland. Folios 137-138.

Letter, 2 November 1877, of Edwin A. Grosvenor to Austen Henry Layard.

Folios 139-140.

Letter, 28 July 1859, of Charlotte Loftus, the wife of the archaeologist William Kennett Loftus, to Austen Henry Layard. Following the death of her husband, Charlotte writes to Layard to seek his assistance in trying to obtain a civil list pension to allow her to support her family. Folios 141-143.

Letter, 6 March 1853, of Dr N.N.W. Meissner to Austen Henry Layard.

Folios 144-145.

Printed letter, 23 April 1868, of William Smith to “My dear Sir”, concerning “The Dictionary Club”. The letter has been annotated “1870 Decr 3 Layard. A.H.”

Folios 146-147.