General correspondence
MS. Murray 2/1
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
General correspondence
Shelfmark
MS. Murray 2/1
Summary
Comprises:
Folder 1. Correspondence, Jan-Jul 1873, including many requests for a copy of Murray's book Dialects of the Southern Counties of Scotland, published this year. Includes several letters from L.L. [Louis Lucien] Bonaparte, mostly in English, but some in French. Some other names in folder include: Alexander J. Ellis; Sir Walter Elliot; Edward A. Freeman (the historian); Henry Nicol; F.J. Furnivall; James Hardy, Secretary of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. Includes a letter in German from Koenigsfeld, and one in French from Paris.
Folder 2. Correspondence, Aug-Dec 1873, includes: several letters from Alexander J. Ellis, and from Bartholomew Price of the Clarendon Press. Some other names included in folder: F.J. Furnivall; Sir Walter Elliot; Rev. James Parlane; G.S. Boulger; Walter Gregor; Louis Lucien Bonaparte; Edmonton Douglas.
Date
Jan-Dec 1873
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
