The letters are arranged chronologically under each correspondent.

Frere, Philip Howard.

Letters, 1865, of Philip Frere to John Murray III. They concern the death of Frere’s mother, Mary (d 1864), and the copyright of the fifth volume, edited by his father, William, of the five volume work, “Original letters written during the reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. and Richard III. by various persons of rank or consequence [of the Paston family]” (1787-1789 - G.G.J. and J. Robinson; 1823 - John Murray). Folios 1-4.

Frere, Walter Howard.

Letters, 1899-1910, of Walter Frere to John Murray IV. They mostly concern Frere’s observations on, and suggestions for, publications on church history.

1899, 1901-1902, 1905, 1910: folios 5-21.

Note.

Folios 11-12. Wet-press copy of a letter, 26 July 1905, of John Murray IV to Walter Frere concerning Frere’s proposal for a new edition of Daniel Rock’s “The church of our fathers”. With the letter is a report (folios 13-15) on “The church of our fathers” by one of Murray’s scholarly advisors, “FR”.

Frere, William.

Letters, 1821, of William Frere to John Murray II. They concern the publication of the fifth volume, of which Frere was the editor, of “Original letters written during the reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. and Richard III. by various persons of rank or consequence [of the Paston family]” (1787-1789 - G.G.J. and J. Robinson; 1823 - John Murray). Folios 22-29.

Freshfield, Douglas William

Letters, 1878-1911, of Douglas Freshfield to John Murray III, to John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. They mostly concern the preparation and publication of Freshfield’s revisions of “A handbook for travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont”. Freshfield also mentions “grappling” with a life of Horace Benedict de Saussure, subsequently published by Edward Arnold as “The life of Horace Benedict de Saussure” (1920).

1878: folios 30-45;

1879: folios 46-76 [Note 1];

1880, 1882, 1885-1886: folios 77-101;

1891-1892, 1897-1898: folios 102-115 [Note 2];

1907, 1911: folios 116-121.

Two plates of illustrations of mountain panoramas, from ?late 19th century German language guidebooks to Austria and Switzerland:

(i) “Panorama von der Hohen Salve”: folio 122;

(ii) “Panorama du vom Pilatus”: folio 123.

Notes:

[Note 1.] Folios 69-70. Letter, 26 July 1879, of Arthur Cust, late schoolmaster at Rossall School, to John Murray III forwarding (folios 71-72) letter, 25 July 1879, of Douglas Freshfield to John Murray III concerning Cust and his interest in editing the Murray handbooks for travellers.

[Note 2.] Folio 112. Memorandum, 16 February 1897, of William Clowes and Sons, Limited, to John Murray IV concerning corrections to “Gibbon’s Letters”, as suggested by Douglas Freshfield.

Freshfields, solicitors, London.

Letters, 1899-1900, of Freshfields to John Murray IV. They concern Murray’s involvement as witness on behalf of the universities in the case of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge against Gill and Son. Folios 124-126.