Letters, 1873-1896, of Reginald Wilberforce to John Murray III, John Murray IV and Hallam Murray, with some letters of Ann Wilberforce and with related letters and papers. The letters of Reginald Wilberforce concern his involvement in “Life of the Right Reverend Samuel Wilberforce, Vol. 1” by Arthur Ashwell, and his own subsequent undertaking of the compiling and writing of volumes 2 and 3. They also concern his later work “An unrecorded chapter of the Indian mutiny”. The letters are arranged in chronological order.

Wilberforce, Reginald:

1873-1876: folios 1-16;

1878-1879: folios 17-52;

1880: folios 53-95; (1)

1881: folios 96-122; (2)

1882: folios 123-151;

1883: folios 152-180;

1884: folios 181-184;

1886-1888: folios 185-191;

1894: folios 192-223; (3)

1895-1896: folios 224-231;

uncertain date: folios 232-233. (4)

Wilberforce, Ann:

1882: folios 234-235;

1895: folio 236;

uncertain dates: folios 237-245.

1. Includes letter, 8 March 1880, of Alfred Pott to John Murray III: folios 68-69.

2. Includes letter, 22 April ?1881, of Reginald Wilberforce to John Murray III. This letter includes a copy of a letter of William Gladstone to Reginald Wilberforce: folios 110-111.

3. Includes letter, 13 April 1894, of Alfred Cotterell Tupp to Reginald Wilberforce: folios 202-203.

4. Letter, uncertain date, of Robert Phillimore to Reginald Wilberforce: folios 232-233.