Letters to John Murray, publishers, of William Gowers., 1893-1908 and undated.
Scope and Contents
The letters are to John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. They concern various matters including: publications on medicine; articles published in, or to be considered for, the “Quarterly Review”;talk of the Athenaeum Club. Also detailed are Gowers’s suggestions for the revision of the 1885 edition of “A handbook for travellers in North Wales”.
The letters are arranged chronologically.
1893-1894: folios 1-34;
1895: folios 35-70;
1896-1898: folios 71-102 [Note];
1901, 1903-1904, 1908: folios 103-122.
Undated: folios 123-125.
Note.
Folio 82. Letter, 26 June 1896, of William Page Roberts to William Gowers. The letter was forwarded as an enclosure to Gowers’s letter to “Dear Murray”, 27 June [1896] (folio 81).
Dates
- Creation: 1893-1908 and undated.
Creator
- John Murray (publishers, London) (Recipient, Organization)
- Gowers, Sir William Richard, Knight, physician, 1845-1915: recipient (Recipient, Person)
- Murray, Alexander Henry Hallam (publisher, London) (1854-1934) (Recipient, Person)
- Murray, John, Sir, Knight (publisher (IV)) (1851-1928) (Recipient, Person)
Language of Materials
English
Extent
0.00 Linear metres (i + 125 folios.)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
1473
Subject
Repository Details
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