This folder contains some correspondence relating to Thomas James Wise and other correspondence relating to the sale and provenance of items by or relating to Lord Byron. The Wise correspondence has been placed chronologically before that relating to the manuscripts and objects of Lord Byron. The latter has been organised by correspondent surname with miscellaneous material placed at the end of the sequence.

Draft of a letter of John Murray [IV] to Thomas James Wise. 1928: folio 1;

Letters and copies of letters of John Murray [VI] to Thomas James Wise with one reply from Wise, 1931-1933: folios 2-38;



Correspondence and associated material concerning the sales and provenance of Lord Byron manuscripts and other items:

Two copies of letters of John Murray [V] to Sir Sydney Cockerell with one reply and an excerpt from a Sotheby Catalogue, 1955: folios 39-42;

Letters and copies of letters between William Elliott Doubleday, Duncan Gray, John Murray [V] and William Norman Rees, relating to sale of ‘Relics of Lord Byron’, with a press cutting of the Nottinghamshire Guardian Weekly, and a transcript of an article, dated 25 June 1892, from the Weekly Express, 1950: folios 43-56;

Letter of John Dozier Gordan to John Murray [V] with a copy of the reply, 1965: folios 57-58;

Letter of F A Keogh to John Murray [III], 1878: folios 59-60;

Letter of Anne Helen Murray to John Murray [IV] with a note of John Murray [IV], 1892: folios 61-62;

Letter of Margaret Ellen FitzAdam Ormiston to John Murray [V], 1950: folio 63;

Letter of Philip Ramsay Robinson to John Murray [V] with a partial reply on the reverse, 1947: folio 64;

Letter of Eric Arthur Shattock to John Murray [V] enclosing a photograph, 1929: folios 65-66;

Letter of John Murray [V] to Stanley Cecil Sutton with a reply, 1955: folios 67-68;

Letter of William C Swanson to John Murray [V] with a press cutting of the New York Sun, 1934: folios 69-70;

Letter of Arthur John Renault Fraser Taylor to John Murray [V], with a note of John Murray [V] on the reverse and two copies of ‘Windsor Poetics’ by Lord Byron, 1948: folios 71-73;

Letter, of J R Topham to John Murray [V], with two photographs of a snuff box, 1936: folios 74-76;

Leaflet advertising ‘A Souvenir of Newstead Abbey formerly the home of Lord Byron’ by Richard Allen with a printed note giving a quotation about the work of John Murray [V], 1874: folios 77-79;

Excerpt probably from an auction catalogue for a miniature portrait of Lord Byron, with a note of John Murray [V], 1950: folio 80;

Photocopy of an article in the New York Times relating to manuscripts and books donated to the University of Pennsylvania by Mr and Mrs Meyer Davies, 1966: folio 81;

Two notes in the hand of John Murray [V], 1956 and undated: folios 82-83.