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Layard
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Austen Henry Layard : Nineveh
'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Layard : Nineveh
'Happy days were spent in the little Twickenham garden, my father reading aloud passages of any book which struck him. Layard's Nineveh and Herschel's Astronomy were read at this time.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson 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.'
