Scope and Contents (i) Letters of Alfred Kempe to John Murray II and John Murray III.The letters are arranged chronologically. The letters for 1820 concern the preparation and publication of Kempe’s translation, “A circumstantial narrative of the campaign in Saxony, in the year 1813” (1820), from the German of Baron Von Odeleben. The other letters concern Kempe’s editing, and subsequent printing, of a “curious collection of letters and other MS documents of the 16th and 17th Centuries preserved at...

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....

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Includes genealogical articles, notes, and transcripts, 1892-1909 and undated, concerning the Murray family.

With drafts for the "Scots Peerage" of Sir James Balfour Paul, with letters pasted in, 1902-1917 and undated. Letter writers include:

James Balfour Paul, John Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl, J Maitland Thomson and George Cokayne.