A letter relating to the letters of Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray [II] has been placed at the start of the sequence. The rest of the letters have been arranged chronologically. Some of the letters were dated with reference to the website of Professor Paul Douglass, ‘Caro: the Caroline Lamb website’.

When first made available for consultation this folder of letters, before it was foliated, included a letter, provisionally dated 1815, of Lady Caroline to John Murray [II]. However, on cataloguing it was found that the letter was more likely to have been written in 1816, so it is now in MS.43467, folios 5-6.

Letter of Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, to John Murray IV regarding the letters of Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray [II], 1911: folios 1-2;

Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray [II]:

1813: folios 3-33;

[1813-1814]: folios 34-38;

1814: folios 39-105;

1815, including a sketch of Lamb probably of Lord and Lady Byron: folios 106-131;

probably 1813-1815 but undated: folios 132-137;

Notes relating to the letters of Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray [II] in this folder, undated: folios 138-151.