Dicey, Albert Venn.

The letters are to John Murray III and John Murray IV. They mostly concern the preparation and publication of two works by Albert Dicey:

“England’s case against Home Rule” (1886, and subsequent editions);

“A leap in the dark: or, Our new constitution” (1893).

Many of the letters seem to be by an amanuensis. The letters are arranged chronologically.

1886: folios 1-40 [Note 1];

1887: folios 41-88 [Notes 2-4];

1890, 1892-1894, 1897: folios 89-115;

1906, 1913, 1915, 1921: folios 116-128 [Note 5].

Draft of letter, undated, of John Murray III to ?Albert Dicey. Folios 129-130.

Note, undated, concerning the production of “England’s case against Home Rule”. Folio 131.

Dicey, Edward.

The letters, which appear to be to John Murray IV, are arranged chronologically.

1893-1894, 1896: folios 132-141.

Notes.

[Note 1.] Folios 15-16. Letter, 2 October 1886, of Percy Bunting, Editor of the “Contemporary Review”, to John Murray III.

[Note 2.] Folios 45-46. Letter, 12 January 1887, of Philip Gell, of the Clarendon Press, to Albert Dicey. The letter was forwarded as an enclosure to Dicey’s letter to John Murray III, 16 January 1887 (folios 43-44).

[Note 3.] Folios 79-80. Letter, 11 May 1887, of Lucie Gibson, on behalf of Caroline Stephen, to Albert Dicey. The letter was forwarded as an enclosure to Dicey’s letter to John Murray III, 12 May 1887 (folios 77-78).

[Note 4.] Folios 81-82. Letter, 13 May 1887, of Henry Hozier to Albert Dicey.

[Note 5.] Folios 121-124. Letter, 20 April 1906, of Caroline Stephen to Albert Dicey. The letter was forwarded as an enclosure to Dicey’s letter to John Murray IV, 24 April 1906 (folios 118-120).