General correspondence, 1874-1875

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MS. Murray 2/2

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Folder 1. Correspondence, 1874, includes: several letters from Alexander J. Ellis. Some other names in folder include: F.J. Furnivall; Henry Nicol; Norman MacColl, editor of the Athenaeum; Charles Appleton and Charles E. Doble of The Academy; H. Laidez of the Revue Celtique [French]; Bartholomew Price of the Clarendon Press about Murray's proposal for a book on Lowland Scotch; Louis Lucien Bonaparte; R.G. Latham; Arthur B. Miller; Henry Bradshaw of Cambridge University Library; Sir Edward Maunde Thompson of the British Museum; Richard Morris; William Ralston; Walter Riddell; Henry Sweet; Charles Neaves, Sir Walter Elliot; Sir Alex Grant; John Yeats; James Parlane; John Somerville; William Greenwell; Alexander Graham Bell. A number of letters concern Murray’s honorary LL.D. awarded by Edinburgh University.
Folder 2. Correspondence, Jan-Oct 1875, includes: several letters from Alexander J. Ellis. Some other names included in folder: J.W. Bales ; Henry Bradshaw of Cambridge University Library; J.G. Goodchild; Louis Lucien Bonaparte [partly in French]; F.J. Furnivall; Norman MacColl, editor of the Athenaeum; Thomas B. Gray on Melrose topography; David Laing; Henry Nicol; Joseph Brown of Kendal on dialects; Ada Murray.
Folder 3. Correspondence, Nov-Dec 1875, some names included in folder: J.G. Goodchild; James Wood; A. Currie; Alexander J Ellis; Thomas B Gray; Richard Garnett; Longmans Green & Co. requesting the signed agreement for publishing Murray's Poems of Dunbar.

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MS. Murray 2/2

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