The letters are to John Murray I. They concern William Kerr’s business and personal relations with Murray. The topics are mostly of legal and financial affairs, particularly concerning Murray’s dealings with the book trade.

The letters are arranged chronologically.

1769: folios 1-7;

1770: folios 8-11;

1771: folios 12-19;

1772: folios 20-45;

1774: folios 46-77;

1775: folios 78-113 [Note].

Notes, late nineteenth-early twentieth century, on the letters of William Kerr to John Murray I. The notes are by John Murray IV. Folios 114-115.

[Note.] Folio 103. Copy, [10 August-5 September 1775], of a letter, 10 August 1775, of William Kerr to Biny Kennedy. The copy appears to have been forwarded as an enclosure to Kerr’s letter to John Murray I, 5 September 1775.