Sir Austen Henry Layard, archaeologist: letters mainly concerning a proposed lecture on discoveries at Nineveh Seven autograph letters, mostly concerning a proposed lecture on Layard's discoveries at Nineveh to the Beaumont Institution, and the National Schools in Stepney it was intended to support, probably sent to the Rev. William Valentine, with a letter from John Murray, 1853 - 1854; Newspaper cuttings on the granting of the Freedom of the City of London in 1854; a meeting between Layard and his constituents at Aylesbury in 1855; and his installation as Lord Rector of Marischal College in the same year. Also printed notices mostly concerning Layard's excavations and talks thereon, also some political material, 1854 - 1855. 1853-1855