The letters are to John Murray II and John Murray III. Subjects of discussion include: Thomas Mitchell and the publication of his translations of the comedies of Aristophanes; the publication of Charles Wordsworth’s, “Graecae Grammaticae Rudimenta. In usum scholarum” (1839); a request by John Parker, on behalf of Orlando Jewitt, the wood-engraver, to John Murray III asking whether he has any work; corrections to the fourth edition of the “Handbook for travellers in France”; shares in the “Roman Exploration Company”; and the revision of Murray’s handbooks for travellers in Italy and Rome.

The letters are arranged chronologically.

1831-1834, 1838: folios 1-14;

1840, 1843-1845, 1849: folios 15-37;

1850-1851, 1855, 1857, 1859: folios 38-49;

1861, 1864: folios 50-55 [Note];

1871- 1876, 1879: folios 56-108;

1880: folios 109-112.

Undated, ?1879: folios 113-115.

[Note.]

Folios 54-55. Letter, 2 November 1864, of John Parker to Joseph Pentland.