Memorandums.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents recording information used for internal communication.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Fragments of letters, mostly undated, to John Murray, publishers, of Henry Pullen; with miscellaneous letters and papers concerning Pullen and the editorship of “Murray’s Handbooks for Travellers”., ? 1883-? 1903.
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Identifier: MS.40988
Scope and Contents
Letters of, to and concerning Henry Pullen. Folios 1-20.Incomplete letters, and dissociated parts of letters, mostly postscripts, of Henry Pullen to John Murray, publishers: folios 1-13.Contemporary copies of two letters, 1896 and 1897, of Hallam Murray to Henry Pullen: folios 14-17.Memorandum, 6 April 1891, of William Clowes and Sons, Limited, to John Murray IV, concerning the printing of Murray’s “Handbook for Travellers in Northern Italy”. The...
Dates:
? 1883-? 1903.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surname or company name Chapin to Charlton., 1809-1915.
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Identifier: MS.40210
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name. Further correspondents have been added to the end of this sequence.Chapin, Adele Le Bourgeois.Letters, 1925, of Adele Le Bourgeois Chapin to John Murray IV. Folios 1-4.Chaplin, George Chaplin Child.Letter, 1877, of George Chaplin Child Chaplin to John Murray III. Folio 5. Further letters between these two correspondents can be located at the...
Dates:
1809-1915.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Aglen to Ainger, Alfred., [1826]-1908.
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Identifier: MS.40010
Scope and Contents
The letters are arranged chronologically under each correspondent.Aglen, Anthony Stocker.Letters, 1893-1895 and 1898, of Anthony Aglen to John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. The letters concern the publication of “A selection from the writings of Dean [Arthur] Stanley” (1894), edited by Anthony Aglen. Folios 1-42.Notes.Folio 19. Letter, 12 December 1893, of James Parker and Co., publishers, to Hallam Murray granting permission for extracts to be...
Dates:
[1826]-1908.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Cockerell to Colby., 1819-1920.
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Identifier: MS.40229
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name. A further correspondent has been added to the end of the sequence.Cockerell, Charles Robert.Letters, 1819, 1836-1838, 1841, 1843 and 1851, of Charles Robert Cockerell to John Murray II and John Murray III. Folios 1-17.Cockerell, Samuel Pepys.Letter, 1897, of Samuel Pepys Cockerell to John Murray IV. Folios 18-19.Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle....
Dates:
1819-1920.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of George Goschen (1831-1907)., 1884-1899.
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Identifier: MS.40469
Scope and Contents
The letters are to John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. They concern mostly the preparation and publication of George Goschen’s biography of his grandfather, Georg Goschen: “The life and times of Georg Joachim Goschen, publisher and printer of Leipzig 1752-1828” (1903).The letters are largely arranged chronologically, although an additional letter has been added to the end of the sequence.1884: folios 1-2;1894: folios 3-50 [Note 1];1895: folios...
Dates:
1884-1899.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Herbert Maxwell., 1899-1927.
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Identifier: MS.40798
Scope and Contents
The letters are to John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. They concern the publication of “The Creevey Papers: a selection from the correspondence and diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P.” (1903), edited by Herbert Maxwell. Also mentioned is the manuscript of Maxwell’s “A century of empire, 1801-1900”. Accompanying several of the letters is a copy of the outline of the reply of John Murray IV.The letters are arranged chronologically.1899: folios 1-3;1902:...
Dates:
1899-1927.
Papers concerning Francis Darwin: mostly letters of publishers, printers, etc., to John Murray, publishers, concerning Francis Darwin`s works. Also included are papers concerning Francis Darwin`s interests in the works and in the copyright of his father, Charles Darwin., 1885-1899.
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Identifier: MS.40312
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The incoming correspondence consists of letters of individuals and companies sent to John Murray, publishers, mostly relating to the business, but also including private letters. The correspondence largely covers the period from the 1760s to the 1920s. Where enclosures exist, they have been kept with their original letters. This series contains most of the extant letters received by the publishing house up to the 1920s, but others are to be found throughout the archive. One...
Dates:
1885-1899.