General correspondence

Title

General correspondence

Shelfmark

MS. Murray 7/2

Summary

Comprises:

Folder 1. Correspondence, Jun-Dec 1886, includes: several letters from Henry Bradley. Some other names included in folder: Robert Harley; Philip Lyttelton Gell of the Clarendon Press; Frederick Thomas Elworthy; J.T. Fowler; Henry H. Gibbs; Henry Frowde; W.K. Hilton, University of Durham; Agnes A. O'Connor, Clapham High School; Alfred Erlebach; H.R. Helwich; Maria Elworthy; F. Max Müller; W.W. Skeat; F.C. Birkbeck Terry; Alex Melville Bell; Warren Hall; Horace Hart; Richard Francis Weymouth; Benjamin Jowett; Charles E. Doble; Harold Harley. Folder also includes a 'Junior Candidate' examination mark sheet.

Folder 2. Correspondence, Jan-Oct 1887, some names included in folder: Philip Lyttelton Gell; J.I. Farr; Robert Harley; George F. Black; Charles E. Doble; Edward Arber; Benjamin Jowett; Georgina Max Müller; Lucy Toulmin Smith; R. Martineau; William Melrose; Thomas Hallam; Walter Gregor; Richard C. Harrison; John Thomsen; Jane Oliver. Folder also includes: a letter from Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887, and a typewritten copy of the letter from James A.H. Murray to Stevenson, 10 Feb 1887, which had prompted Stevenson's reply, together with an accompanying letter from Ernest Mehew to Miss Murray, 24 August 1988; Photocopy letter and portrait print sent to Murray by James Russell Lowell, 1887, with an accompanying letter from Chief Librarian, Rare Books and Special Collections, Pennsylvania State University, 30 Aug 1972.

Folder 3. Correspondence, Nov-Dec 1887, some names included in folder: Philip Lyttelton Gell of the Clarendon Press; F.J. Furnivall; Henry H. Gibbs; H. Bradley; John Robson; Frederick Thomas Elworthy; Charles E. Doble; Edith Thompson; Harry Nimmo; R. Martineau; G. Buchanan Ryley; Richard Francis Weymouth; John Yeats.

Date

Jun 1886-Dec 1887, 1972, 1988

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (3 folders)