Proposals
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames and company names from Egerton, Francis C. to Eliot, A., 1817-1915.
File
Identifier: MS.40370
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Egerton, Francis Charles Granville.Letters, 1886-1889, 1895, 1897 and 1909, of Francis Charles Granville Egerton, 3rd earl of Ellesmere, to John Murray III, John Murray IV and Alexander Henry Hallam Murray. Folios 1-36.Egerton, Francis Henry.Proposal, 1831, sent to John Murray II outlining the ‘Bridgewater Treatises’ that were published in 1833, according...
Dates:
1817-1915.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Edward Arnold, publisher, with related papers., 1886-1916.
File
Identifier: MS.40364
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is comprised of letters, drafts of letters and draft publishing proposals. The papers relate mostly to the business relationship between Edward Arnold and John Murray, publishers, but they also indicate the personal relations between the publishers. The correspondence is mostly between Edward Arnold and John Murray IV, but includes letters written on behalf of Arnold by A.L. Mumm. A significant part of the correspondence relates to the establishment, in 1887, of the periodical...
Dates:
1886-1916.