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Austen Henry Layard : Nineveh

'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Henry Layard : 'book on his early travels'

1 October 1887: 'Henry [Layard, son-in-law] has given me the revises of a new book on his early travels, which Murray is about to bring out, and I have been reading them over to make any corrections that may strike me. I have gone through them carefully and found many errors. I don't think Spottiswoode prints as he ought to do.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: In proofs from John Murray

Henry Layard : article on Lord Beaconsfield

[following journal entry for 19 February 1889] 'That evening [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] youngest daughter, Blanche, dined and read to her the article on Lord Beaconsfield in the Quarterly Review. Lady Charlotte's comment was: "This I am sure could have been written by no one but Henry Layard." It was so.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Blanche Countess of Bessborough      Print: Serial / periodical

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