Archive of John Murray VI and authors associated with him.

Sub-Fonds

Identifier: Acc.14349

Staff Only

Content Description

Includes correspondence, book files, manuscripts and proofs relating to Murray authors.

Authors featured in the collection include: John Betjeman, Lesley Blanch, George Mackay Brown, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Noni Jabavu, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Dervla Murphy and Freya Stark.

Also included are some personal papers of Freya Stark.

There are also letters to John Murray VI from correspondents including: Harold Acton, Michael Ayrton, Clive Bell, Isaiah Berlin, Hugh Casson, Sydney Cockerell, Cyril Connolly, Beryl Cook, Jim Ede, Gavin Ewart, Ian Fleming, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, Augustus John, Molly Keane, Margaret Lane, Philip Larkin, James Lees-Milne, Joan Leigh Fermor and Penelope Mortimer.

Dates

Creation: [?1915-?2016.]

Creator

John Murray (publishers, London) (Organization)
Murray, John Arnaud Robin (publisher (VI), formerly Grey) (1909-1993) (Person)
Bean, William Jackson (arboriculturist and dendrologist) (1863-1947) (Person)
Betjeman, John, Sir (poet) (Person)
Blanch, Lesley (writer) (Person)
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) (Person)
Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie, Baron (art patron and historian) (Person)
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan, Sir (author) (Person)
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) (Person)
Grimble, Arthur Francis, Sir, Knight (colonial governor and ethnographer) (1888-1956) (Person)
Ingrams, William Harold (colonial official) (1897-1973) (Person)
Jabavu, Noni (writer and journalist) (1919-2008) (Person)
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer (novelist and screenwriter) (1927-2013) (Person)
Lancaster, Sir Osbert, Knight, cartoonist, author and critic , 1908-1986: transcriber (Person)
Marchand, Leslie Alexis (literary scholar and Byron biographer) (1900-1999) (Person)
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik (physician and author) (1857-1949) (Person)
Murphy, Dervla (cyclist and author) (Person)
Origo, Iris Margaret, Dame (writer and historian, née Cutting) (Person)
Sagan, Françoise (French novelist and dramatist) (1935-2004) (Person)
Stark, Freya Madeline, Dame (writer and traveller) (Person)
Starkie, Walter Fitzwilliam (Hispanic scholar and travel writer) (1894-1976) (Person)
Tozer, Katharine (writer) (1907-1943) (Person)
Varè, Daniele (Italian expatriate diplomat and author) (1880-1956) (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The papers have not yet been arranged and described and so no finding aid is available. Please direct any enquiries about the papers to the John Murray Archive curator, Archives and Manuscript Division.