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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.

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Concerns Dr John Brown`s "Horae Subsecivae" and comments on his "Rab and his freinds" and "Marjorie Flemming".

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18 letters are from Martineau to Carlyle, one letter is from Martineau to Thomas Carlyle.

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With an unpublished typescript, undated, by Charles Grant Forrester on Brown`s literary correspondence.

Scope and Contents The letters have been arranged alphabetically by correspondent surname. Letters of multiple or unidentified correspondents have been placed at the end of the sequence.Letters, 1842, 1845-1846. of Sir George Biddell Airy to John Murray II and John Murray III: folios 1-9;Letter, 1843, of Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy to John Murray III: folios 10-11;Letter, 1847, of George Augustus Frederic Cavendish-Bentinck to John Murray III: folios 12-13;...