(i) Letters of Otto Goldschmidt to John Murray III, John Murray IV and Hallam Murray.

The letters mostly concern the preparation and publication of the “Memoir of Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt: her early art-life and dramatic career, 1820-1851” (1891; new and abridged edition, 1893), by William Rockstro and Henry Scott Holland. Jenny Lind was Otto Goldschmidt’s wife.

Included are draft letters of John Murray IV to Otto Goldschmidt [Note 1].

The letters are arranged chronologically.

1871, 1872, 1876: folios 1-7;

1887-1889: folios 8-25 [Note 2];

1890: folios 26-64 [Note 3];

1891: folios 65-76 [Note 4];

1892-1893, 1896-1899: folios 77-113;

1900-1903, 1905: folios 114-142.

Undated: folios 143-145.

(ii) Letters of Walter Goldschmidt to John Murray IV and Hallam Murray.

The letters are arranged chronologically.

1887, 1891, 1897, 1899, 1915, 1917: folios 146-164 [Note 5].

Notes.

[Note 1.] Draft letters of John Murray IV to Otto Goldschmidt: folio 30 (31 January 1890); folios 46-47 (23 May 1890); folios 58-59 (23 July 1890); folio 145 (undated).

[Note 2.] Folios 23-25. Letter, 9 November 1889, of William Rockstro to Otto Goldschmidt. The letter was forwarded as an enclosure to Goldschmidt’s letter to John Murray III, 21 November 1889 (folios 21-22).

[Note 3.] Folio 62. Memorandum, 26 July 1890, of William Clowes and Sons, Limited, to John Murray IV concerning the printing of the “Memoir of Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt”.

[Note 4.] Folios 75-76. Letter, 14 October 1891, of Henry Scott Holland to Otto Goldschmidt. The letter was forwarded as an enclosure to Goldschmidt’s letter to Hallam Murray, 15 October 1891 (folios 73-74).

[Note 5.] Folios 158-159. Wet-press copy of a letter, 12 June 1915, of John Murray IV to Walter Goldschmidt.