Scope and Contents Letters of Lionel Trotter to John Murray III, John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. The letters 1860-1866 concern Trotter’s wish to be engaged to write biography, and his suggestion of several likely subjects, including Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Murray II. The letter for 1889 concerns the publication of Trotter’s “Life of the Marquis of Dalhousie” (W.H. Allen and Co., 1889), and his desire to find another subject. The letters 1895-1902 concern the preparation and...

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Letters, 1899-1904, of Mountstuart Grant Duff to John Murray IV and Hallam Murray, and related papers. They mostly concern his work on “Notes from a diary”, and “Out of the past” published by the Murrays. The letters are arranged in chronological order.

1899: folios 1-27;

1900: folios 28-44;

1901: folios 45-59;

1902: folios 60-76;

1903: folios 77-84;

1904: folios 85-91;

uncertain date: folios 92-95.

Scope and Contents The letters are to John Murray III, John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. They mostly concern the preparation and publication of revisions by William Coolidge of “A handbook for travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont” (mainly the 1891 and 1892 editions).The letters are arranged chronologically.1881, 1888-1889: folios 1-5;1890: folios 6-19 [Note 1];1891: folios 20-65;1892: folios 66-94;1893: folios...