Letters, 1891-1898, of Samuel Smiles to John Murray IV, with a few to John Murray III, Hallam Murray and Charles Payne, with related letters and papers dating to 1904. The letters concern works of Smiles published by Murray including the biographies “Jasmin” and “Josiah Wedgwood”, with mention of reprints or translations of earlier works including “Self-help”. The letters are arranged in chronological order.

1891: folios 1-53; (1)

1892: folios 54-74; (2)

1893-1894: folios 75-98; (3)

1895-1896: folios 99-111; (4)

1897-1898: folios 112-129;

1900: folios 130-131; (5)

Uncertain dates: folios 132-133; (6)

1904: folios 134-135; (7)

Uncertain dates: folios 136-139. (8)

1. Includes letter, 21 February 1891, of Siegfried Cronbach to [John] Murray III: folio 5;

letter, 5 March 1891, of Edward Clark on behalf of R. and R. Clark to Samuel Smiles: folio 10;

letter, 2 May 1891, of Edmund Routledge on behalf of George Routledge and Sons to Samuel Smiles: folios 21-22;

letter, 8 August 1891, of I. Stuart to Samuel Smiles: folios 40-41.

2. Includes letter, 4 May 1892, of Edmund Routledge on behalf of George Routledge and Sons probably to John Murray IV: folio 63;

letter, 24 July 1892, of James Dunlop to Samuel Smiles: folios 69-70.

3. Includes letter, 1 August 1894, of Harper and Brothers to John Murray IV enclosing typescript copy of a reader’s opinion of Smiles’ biography “Josiah Wedgwood”: folios 81-83.

4. Includes letter, 24 November 1896, of William Davidson on behalf of E. S. Wigg and Son to John Murray IV: folios 109-110.

5. Letter, 16 February 1900, of Samuel Smiles (b. ?1852) to John Murray IV: folios 130-131.

6. Press-cutting from the “Oxford Shorthand Chronicle”, ?1892, concerning Smiles’ biography of George Moore, and a note concerning same: folios 132-133.

7. Indenture for assignment of copyright, 29 August 1904, of William Hartree to John Murray IV, for works of Samuel Smiles, witnessed and signed by Richard Ferrier: folios 134-135.

8. Letter, uncertain date, of Mary Burrows to Samuel Smiles, concerning a child’s life of George Stephenson: folios 136-137;

letter, uncertain date, of Samuel Smiles to John Murray III or IV: folio 138;

typescript page, uncertain date, probably concerning Smiles’ biography of George Moore: folio 139.