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General correspondence

MS. Murray 20/1

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Title

General correspondence

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MS. Murray 20/1

Summary

Some later notes are included with the correspondence identifying some of the correspondents. Comprises:

Folder 1. Correspondence, Jan-Jun 1908, some names included in folder: Robinson Ellis; W.A. Craigie; Warren F. Kellog; F.J. Furnivall; Oswyn Alexander Ruthven Murray [son]; Hilda Murray [daughter]; William Edward Moss; Bonnaffé; Herbert John Gladstone; Hugh Chisholm; Thomas H. Thornton; William Downing; John Sarum [John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury]; Francis John Haverfield; Alfred Paterson; Samuel Augustus Barnett; James Oliver; A.V. Dicey; John Richard Magrath; Vaughan Nash; Harold Murray; Robert Giffen and Margaret Giffen; A.J. Herbertson; William Ryland Dent Adkins; Anthony Traill; Arthur Bigge; R. S. Meiklejohn. Folder also includes a letter from Herbert Henry Asquith, offering a knighthood to Murray, as well as subsequent telegram and a copy of Murray's reply.

Folder 2. Correspondence, Jul-Dec 1908, some names included in folder: Robinson Ellis; Anthony Traill; Henry Bradley; F.J. Furnivall; Edward Dowden; William James Herschel; H.C.A. Carpenter; John W. Kennedy; Paul Meyer; Joseph Wright; Emily March; J.I. Farr; Clarence C. Clark; Joseph Wright; Ingram Bywater; Dodgson Hamilton Madden; Alfred Wills; John Campbell Gordon, Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Henry Dyke Acland; E. Samuel Spicer; William Napier Shaw; Warren F. Kellog; Thomas Hunter; William Reynell Anson; John W. Kennedy; J. Schipper; Frances Henry Bull; Hugh Butler; Whitley Stokes; David Wilson; Henry Maxwell Lyte; A. Caland; W. Hatchett Jackson; N.W. Hill; Benjamin Daydon Jackson; George Knottesford Fortescue, British Museum. Folder includes letters relating to Murray's knighthood.

Date

Jan-Dec 1908

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (2 folders)

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Collection contents

Papers of Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915), editor of the Oxford English Dictionary

Correspondence

General correspondence

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