One letter to John Murray III, the remainder are to John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. They concern the preparation and publication of several works by John Martineau, including:

“Letters from Australia” (1869 – published by Longmans, Green and Co.);

“The life and correspondence of Sir Bartle Frere, Bart., G.C.B., F.R.S., etc.” (1895);

“The Transvaal trouble, how it arose: being an extract from the biography of the late Sir Bartle Frere” (1896).

A number of the letters concern the preparation of Martineau’s manuscript of “The life of Henry Pelham, Fifth Duke of Newcastle, 1811-1864”. The manuscript was published in 1908.

The letters are arranged chronologically.

1868 (to John Murray III): folios 1-2;

1893: folios 3-13;

1894: folios 14-87;

1895: folios 88-121;

1896: folios 122-178 [Note].

[Note.] Folios 129-130. Telegram and memorandum, both 9 January 1896, of William Clowes and Sons, Ltd. to John Murray IV concerning the publication of “The Transvaal trouble”.