Smith Elder and Company, London, booksellers and publishers
Organization
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of letters and literary manuscripts submitted to Smith Elder and Company, publishers.
Record Group
Identifier: MSS.32001-32012
Dates:
1860-1902.
Financial and legal papers concerning Austen Henry Layard and the publication of the narratives of his travels and excavations., 1839-1881.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.42412-42413
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Austen Henry Layard was a British archaeologist and politician. He is perhaps best remembered for his excavations at Nimrud and Nineveh. Layard was keen to publicise his discoveries and worked with John Murray to produce lavish publications about his discoveries. These were popular books and went through many editions.The papers here concerning Austen Henry Layard offer a detailed insight into the publishing process surrounding his works about his excavations.The...
Dates:
1839-1881.
Further papers of Smith Elder and Company, publishers, including letters to members of the Smith family from authors connected with the firm, and a number of literary manuscripts.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13783
Scope and Contents
Further papers of Smith Elder and Company, publishers, c.1840s-1910s, mainly comprising letters to members of the Smith family from authors connected with the firm, including Lady Anne Isabella Ritchie, Harriet Martineau and Mary Augusta Ward, along with a number of literary manuscripts and other papers relating to the publishing business.
Dates:
1840s-1910s
Letters to Austen Henry Layard from various correspondents; with a note of John Murray publishers., 1848-1868, 1968.
File
Identifier: MS.42344
Scope and Contents
The letters have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname or business name.Letter of Josiah Forshall to Austen Henry Layard, 1848: folios 1-2;Letter probably of Maria Antoinetta Gordon (signed Mary Aboyne) to Austen Henry Layard, ?1848: folios 3-4;Letter of Wilhelm Heinrich Ludwig Gruner to Austen Henry Layard, 1848: folios 5-6;Letters of Edward Hawkins to Austen Henry Layard, 1848: folios 7-10;Letter of Sir John...
Dates:
1848-1868, 1968.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Davray to Davy., 1821-1919.
File
Identifier: MS.40320
Scope and Contents
Letters of various correspondents to John Murray, publishers. These include letters of Humphry Davy to John Murray II, and letters of his wife Jane Davy and his brother John Davy to John Murray II and John Murray III. The letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent, then by date under each name.Davray, Henry, 1919: folio 1;(co-signed by James May)Davy, Donald, 1860: folios 2-3;Davy, Humphry, 1826-1828: folios 4-21;Davy,...
Dates:
1821-1919.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Hunt, V. to Hunter., 1807-1907, 1976.
File
Identifier: MS.40592
Scope and Contents
All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Hunt, Violet Edith Gwynllyn Brooke-.Letters, 1902-1903 and 1907, of Violet Edith Gwynllyn Brooke-Hunt to John Murray IV and Charles Edward Lawrence. Folios 1-36.Folios 12-15. Letters, 1902, of George Allen and Smith, Elder and Co. to Violet Edith Gwynllyn Brooke-Hunt. Sent as enclosures of letter, 1902, to John Murray IV, folios 10-11.Folios 30-34. Draft...
Dates:
1807-1907, 1976.
Letters to John Murray, publishers, of Heinrich Schliemann., 1874-1879.
File
Identifier: MS.41066
Scope and Contents
Letters, 1874-1879, of Heinrich Schliemann to John Murray III, with some letters to Robert Cooke and with related letters and papers. The letters concern works of his published by Murray, including the English language edition of “Trojanische Alterthümer”, and “Mycenae”. Some letters reveal the controversy surrounding his work and his efforts to respond to criticisms, and also details of his continuing excavations.1874, April-June: folios 1-21; (1)1874,...
Dates:
1874-1879.
Literary manuscripts of poems, essays and short stories submitted to Smith Elder and Company., 1860-1874.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.32002-32003
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts were submitted to Smith Elder and Company to be considered for publication. It is uncertain whether any of the submissions were published.That the manuscripts are of genres - poems, short stories, essays - well suited to publication in a magazine might suggest that they were intended for the consideration of the Editor of the "Cornhill Magazine". However, as there are no indications on the manuscripts to support this, they have been treated as submissions to Smith...
Dates:
1860-1874.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of letters and literary manuscripts submitted to Smith Elder and Company, publishers.
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Letters and manuscripts sent to Smith Elder and Company, publishers, excluding those known to have been sent specifically to the Editor of the "Cornhill Magazine".
Sample of adhesive wafers produced by Smith, Elder, and Co.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13873
Dates:
Circa 1870.
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