The letters are to John Murray II. They concern Thomas Mitchell’s literary and political interests, and indicate his familiar association with Murray and his family.

The letters are arranged chronologically.

1825: folios 1-36 [Note 1];

1826: folios 37-74 [Note 2];

1827: folios 75-106.

Notes.

[Note 1.] Folios 13-14. Letter, 11 April 1825, of Thomas Mitchell to John Taylor Coleridge.

[Note 2.] Folios 45-46. Letter, 3 February 1826, of Thomas Mitchell to John Gibson Lockhart.