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Archive of John Murray, publishers, containing author papers, research files, business records, and Murray family correspondence and diaries.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13236/1-422
Scope and Contents

Further papers of John Murray publishing house.

Dates: 1803-2007, undated.

Archive of John Murray VI and authors associated with him.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14349
Content Description This archival collection completes the larger John Murray Archive, which charts the history of one of Britain’s oldest family-run publishing firms, established in Fleet Street in 1768 by Edinburgh-born John (Mc)Murray I (1737-1795), and managed by six successive generations of his descendants, until its sale in 2002. Like his predecessors, John Murray VI (John Arnaud Robin Grey Murray, known affectionately as ‘Jock’, 1909-1993) cultivated and championed a robust and diverse...
Dates: [?1915-?2016.]

Book files and ledgers of John Murray publishers.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12927-
Scope and Contents The accession is comprised of business books and book files. Also included are woodblocks for William Robinson’s 'The English Flower Garden'. The business books continue in part those held in the first parthase of John Murray Archive (MSS.41896-41999, MSS.42632-43011). They include wet-press letter books, manuscript books, production expenses books, copies ledgers, commission books and private ledgers.The book files reflect the changing practices of the business by...
Dates: Circa 1920-circa 1950.

Business archive of Mainstream Publishing.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13617
Scope and Contents

The archive covers the company`s independent existence from 1978-2005 and includes some earlier related papers. In 2005 the firm entered into a business arrangement with Random House, and the later archive is now with the parent company.

Dates: Circa 1970-2005.

Business records of A & C Black relating to the works of Sir Walter Scott.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9765
Scope and Contents

Concerning the publication of the works of Sir Walter Scott, the copyrights of the Waverley Novels and to the Centenary celebrations of 1871 and 1932.

Dates: circa 1849-1932.

Correspondence, publication files and financial papers of Canongate Publishing Limited; with papers of Southside Publishers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9885/1-143
Scope and Contents

Includes papers relating to publicity and typescript and proof copies of manuscripts.

Dates: 1969-1988, undated.

Diary, 1831-1839, of James Gall.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.6454
Scope and Contents

With the Gall family bible, 18th century to 19th century.

Dates: 18th century to 19th century.

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Correspondence. 26
Business records. 13
Account books. 5
Booksellers and bookselling 5
Administrative records. 4
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Language
English 53
Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic 3
Multiple languages 1
 
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T and T Clark, Edinburgh, publishers 6
Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh, booksellers and publishers 4
Gairm, Gaelic literary and topical magazine 4
John Murray (publishers, London) 4
Canongate Books (publishers, Edinburgh) 3
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Gairm Publications 3
Gall, James, publisher, 1784-1874 3
Galliard Publishing Ltd 3
Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, publishers and printers 3
W and R Chambers (booksellers and publishers) 2
A and C Black Ltd, Edinburgh, publishers and booksellers 1
Bean, William Jackson (arboriculturist and dendrologist) (1863-1947) 1
Betjeman, John, Sir (poet) 1
Blanch, Lesley (writer) 1
Boyd, family 1
Brown, George Mackay (poet and writer) 1
Campbell, William Kilpatrick, director, Mainstream Publishing, b. 1951. 1
Chambers, Charles Edward Stuart, editor and publisher, 1859-1936 1
Chambers, Robert (publisher and writer) 1
Churchill Livingstone, medical publisher 1
Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie, Baron (art patron and historian) 1
Club Leabhar Ltd, Inverness and Stornoway, Gaelic publishers 1
Dionysia Press, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Doyle, Arthur Ignatius Conan, Sir (author) 1
Edinburgh Evening Dispatch, newspaper 1
Ernest Press (publisher, Glasgow) 1
Fermor, Patrick Michael Leigh, Sir, knight (travel writer and soldier) 1
Gall and Inglis (printers and publishers, Edinburgh.) 1
Gall, family 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Grimble, Arthur Francis, Sir, Knight (colonial governor and ethnographer) (1888-1956) 1
Hodgkiss, Peter, 1936-2012 (mountaineer and publisher) 1
Ingrams, William Harold (colonial official) (1897-1973) 1
Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894 (journalist) 1
Jabavu, Helen Nontando (South African writer and journalist, formerly Crosfield) (1919-2008) 1
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer (novelist and screenwriter) (1927-2013) 1
Johnstone, George, Dumfries, bookseller, fl 1809-1821 1
Kirk, Robert, Minister of Aberfoyle, 1644-1692 1
Lancaster, Sir Osbert, Knight, cartoonist, author and critic , 1908-1986: transcriber 1
MacKay, Aeneas Thomas, publisher, Stirling, fl 1905-1933 1
MacKay, Aeneas Thomas, publisher, Stirling, fl 1905-1933: publisher 1
MacKenzie, Peter, director, Mainstream Publishing, fl. 1970-2015 1
Mainstream Publishing 1
Marchand, Leslie Alexis (literary scholar and Byron biographer) (1900-1999) 1
Mariscat Press (poetry publishers, Edinburgh) 1
Martin, Theodore, Sir, Knight (author) (1816-1909) 1
Martineau, Harriet (writer and journalist) (1802-1876) 1
Masson, David Mather (biographer, literary scholar and editor) 1
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik (physician and author) (1857-1949) 1
Murdoch, Joseph Simpson Ferguson, 1919-2000 (American Golf historian and bibliographer) 1
Murphy, Dervla (cyclist and travel writer) (1931-2022) 1
Murray, John Arnaud Robin (publisher (VI), formerly Grey) (1909-1993) 1
Origo, Iris Margaret, Dame (writer and historian, née Cutting) 1
Payn, James, 1830-1898 (novelist and editor) 1
Procter, Anne Benson (née Skepper, mother of Adelaide Anne Procter) (1799-1888) 1
Progressive Review Publishing Company Ltd 1
Ritchie, Anne Isabella (née Thackeray, novelist and biographer) (1837-1919) 1
Ruskin, John (author and art critic) (1819-1900) 1
Sagan, Françoise (French novelist and dramatist) (1935-2004) 1
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1st Baronet of Abbotsford (poet and novelist) (1771-1832) 1
Scottish News Enterprises Ltd, publishers 1
Smith Elder and Company, London, booksellers and publishers 1
Southside Publishers, Edinburgh 1
Stark, Freya Madeline, Dame (writer and traveller) 1
Starkie, Walter Fitzwilliam (Hispanic scholar and travel writer) (1894-1976) 1
The Scotsman (newspaper) 1
The Weekly Scotsman, newspaper 1
Thomson, George, collector of Scottish music, 1757-1851: publisher 1
Tozer, Katharine (writer) (1907-1943) 1
Varè, Daniele (Italian expatriate diplomat and author) (1880-1956) 1
W Green and Son Ltd, Edinburgh, publishers 1
Ward, Mary Augusta (novelist and social worker, known as 'Mrs Humphry Ward') (1851-1920) 1
Whyte, Hamish (poet and publisher) 1
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, publishers: Publisher 1
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