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MS. Murray 4/1

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Title

General correspondence

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MS. Murray 4/1

Summary

Comprises:

Folder 1. Correspondence, Jan-Apr 1879, includes: several letters from Bartholomew Price of the Clarendon Press, and from J.F. Furnivall. Some other names included in folder: Robert Curt[?]; Henry H. Gibbs; Alexander J. Ellis; J. Fletcher Williams; James Tayler; W.A. Greenhill; Berkeley Wesley; Charles B. Arding; Owen Seaman; J. Stone Blomfield; Henry Sweet; Henry Demperley; James Fraser; Henry Bradshaw.

Folder 2. Correspondence, May-Dec 1879, includes: several letters from Bartholomew Price of the Clarendon Press, from F.J. Furnivall, and from John Yeats. Some other names included in folder: Henry Nicol; Richard Francis Weymouth; Henry Bradshaw; Robert Curt[?]; W. Urwick; H.R. Helwich; J.E. Middleton; Henry Sweet; R. Martineau; W.W. Skeat. Folder also includes papers relating to Dictionary expenses, c.1878-1885, including receipts, estimates, and notes on salaries.

Folder 3. Correspondence, Jan-May 1880, includes several letters from Henry Nicol. Some other names included in folder: Bartholomew Price of the Clarendon Press; Louis Lucien Bonaparte; F.J. Furnivall; Robert Curt[?];Alexander J. Ellis; Henry H. Gibbs; F. Max Müller; J.H. Gladstone; J.B. Rundell; James Britten; H.R. Helwich; Norman MacColl, editor of the Athenaeum; G.T. Ascoli [Italian]; Richard Francis Weymouth.

Date

Jan 1879-May 1880 and c.1878-1885

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (3 folders)

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Collection contents

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

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General correspondence

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