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Syria. Asia - Syria. nation. Longitude: 38.0000. Latitude: 35.0000.

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Four albums of photographs by James Simson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3348
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of Palestine, Syria, the Levant, Athens, Vienna and Strasbourg, and photocopies of 10 volumes of travel journals.

Dates: 1876.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Gathering, "Vol. I. N" (volume I, chapter V, pages 177-192), from "Early adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia", by Austen Henry Layard., ? 1886.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42402
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Dates: ? 1886.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of John Murray, publishers. / Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts. / Papers of and concerning Austen Henry Layard. / Manuscripts and proofs of various works by Austen Henry Layard. / Manuscript and proofs, "Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia", by Austen Henry Layard.

Incomplete manuscript, "Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia", by Austen Henry Layard., ? 1884-? 1886.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42400
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Dates: ? 1884-? 1886.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of John Murray, publishers. / Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts. / Papers of and concerning Austen Henry Layard. / Manuscripts and proofs of various works by Austen Henry Layard. / Manuscript and proofs, "Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia", by Austen Henry Layard.

Journal of Sir Alexander Bannerman of Elsick, of tours in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, The Levant, Turkey and in Europe, with descriptions of yachting and sporting visits to Scotland.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13494
Scope and Contents The journal includes an eye-witness account of Napoleon III`s arrival in Paris in 1852. In 1853, Bannerman records visits to the Pyramids and Jerusalem and gives a detailed account of a Bull Fight in Cadiz in 1853. In 1861, Bannerman records visits to Constantinople, Athens and Malta.The accounts of foreign tours are interspersed with descriptions of several yachting expeditions, mostly starting from Cowes, to Ireland and Scotland but also to Europe. In 1854-1856,...
Dates: 1852-1867
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Letter of David Roberts to George Grove.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11011
Scope and Contents

Concerns Grove`s travels in Palastine and Syria.

Dates: 1861.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Manuscript and proofs, "Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia", by Austen Henry Layard., ? 1884-? 1886.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42400-42402
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Dates: ? 1884-? 1886.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of John Murray, publishers. / Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts. / Papers of and concerning Austen Henry Layard. / Manuscripts and proofs of various works by Austen Henry Layard.

Marked galley proofs, "Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia", by Austen Henry Layard., ? 1884-? 1886.

 Item
Identifier: MS.42401
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Austen Henry Layard wrote books and articles about his travels, excavations, later career and painting. Many of the publications were published by John Murray during a period of over 50 years.

The papers here contain the manuscripts and proofs for many of these works, including articles Layard wrote for the 'Quarterly Review'. There are also typescripts in this series, mostly relating to memoirs of Layard from his time as British Minister to Spain and Turkey.

Dates: ? 1884-? 1886.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Archive of John Murray, publishers. / Correspondence of or concerning authors published by John Murray, with related manuscripts. / Papers of and concerning Austen Henry Layard. / Manuscripts and proofs of various works by Austen Henry Layard. / Manuscript and proofs, "Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia", by Austen Henry Layard.

"Observations on Egypt, Syria and Greece made during a three years cruise in HMS Myrmidon", an account by George Sibbald, Assistant Surgeon, Royal Navy, Edinburgh.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.12668
Dates: ? 1816-1818.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division

Photograph album containing around 180 photographs and postcards of scenes of army activity in the Middle East, 1915-1918; with a railway map of the Delta and Fayum in Egypt, undated; a sketch of the Battle of Romani, [?1916]; and a map, 13 September 1918, showing principal troop movements in Syria and Palestine., 1915-1918.

 File
Identifier: Acc.8542/4
Dates: 1915-1918.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Photographs of works of Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson, sculptor, with related papers, cuttings and correspondence. / Photographs and maps of military activity and personnel.

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