Collection name. Murray, Charles, Poet and Civil Servant
Record Group
Identifier: Collection name
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of ‘Hamewith’ (London, 1910) by Charles Murray, enclosing a letter of Murray to the publisher William Fordie Forrester concerning a publishing agreement with Constable.
File
Identifier: MS.27286
Scope and Contents
There are transcripts by William Fordie Forrester of Charles Murray's poems "It wasna his wyte" and "The Thraws o' Fate" on the endpapers.
Dates:
?1926
Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941).
Series
Identifier: MSS.27256-27285
Scope and Contents
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Dates:
1866-1969, undated.