Scope and Contents This series contains over 180 individual editorial files relating to named titles published by John Murray, publishers, from their educational list, largely dating from the 1960s-1990s, with a particular emphasis on the final two decades between 1980-1999. Editorial files primarily contain editorial memoranda and proof corrections sent between editorial and production staff. In certain cases, files also include correspondence between the books’ authors and the publishers, or from third...

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...

Scope and Contents The letters are to John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. Evans, in retirement, undertook work for the Murrays both in an editorial and in an advisory capacity, particularly on works relating to Classics and religion. Evans was interested in the history of the Napoleonic Wars, particularly in the Battle of Waterloo, to which the letters contain references.The letters are arranged chronologically.1895: folios 1-5; 1896: folios 6-24;1897: folios 25-66...

Scope and Contents (i) Letters of Francis Warre Cornish to John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. The letters mostly concern the preparation and publication of various works written, compiled or edited by Cornish, including:“The Eton Horace. Notes to the odes, book 1” (1887);“The Eton Horace. Notes to the odes, Carmen saeculare, and Epodes” (1888);“A concise dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities based on Sir William Smith’s larger dictionary, and incorporating the...

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...