Letters to John Murray III and John Murray IV concerning the publication of 'The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron' of:

Lady Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth, 1886: folios 1-10. Included is a note on f.8v of John Murray III relating that in June 1886 he presented Lady Anne Blunt with 50 letters of Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh;

Ralph Gordon Noel King Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace, 1869-1887 and 1895-1904: folios 11-122. The letters are signed using the titles of Milbanke – firstly ‘Wentworth’ and later ‘Lovelace’. The letters signed ‘Lovelace’ differ in hand markedly from those under ‘Wentworth’ and are possibly by an amanuensis.

Included with the letters of Ralph Gordon Noel King Milbanke are:

Copy of a letter to of Ralph Gordon Noel King Milbanke to the ‘Editor of the Daily News’ dated 1869: folio 11;

Note of John Murray III relating to letters of Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh, 1883: folios 18-19;

Letter of Stibbard, Gibson and Wills to John Murray IV, 1895, folio 26;

Letters of Mary Caroline Milbanke to John Murray IV with one letter of John Murray IV to Ralph Gordon Noel King Milbanke, 1897, 1899 and 1904: folios 53-59, 106-109 and 114-118;

Memorandum to John Murray IV relating to the publication of the letters and poems of Lord Byron, 1899: folios 110-113;

Note relating to the rights contained within the letters of Lord Byron, undated, folio 119;

Transcription with notes of a letter, dated 1822, of Percy Bysshe Shelley to Lord Byron, undated: folio 120;

Annotated transcription of a letter, dated 1824, of Lady Caroline Lamb to Henry Colburn, undated: folio 121;

Manuscript excerpt from ‘Notes from a Diary’ Vol. II of Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff relating to Lord Byron, 1897: folio 122.