The letters are to John Murray IV and to Hallam Murray, with some of their replies. They concern proposals for translations from German. Among those accepted are “A pietist of the Napoleonic Wars and after: the life of the Countess von Reden“, published in 1905, and “Moltke in his home” in 1907.

Mrs Barrett-Lennard signed her letters as either “M. Barrett-Lennard” or “?Mamie Barrett-Lennard”.

The letters are arranged chronologically.

1904: folios 1-18;

1905: folios 19-35 [Note];

1906: folios 36-49;

1907-1909: folios 50-71;

1910-1915: folios 72-95;

1921, 1925-1928: folios 96-111.

[Note.] Folio 35. Postcard, 28 November 1905, of E.S. Mittler und Sohn, publishers, to “Mr. M. Barett-Lernard” [sic]. The postcard was forwarded as an enclosure to Mrs Barrett-Lennard’s letter to John Murray IV, 2 December 1905 (folios 31-34).