The letters are to ?John Murray III and John Murray IV. They concern the publication of various works on social theory, including “The English Poor”, “A plea for liberty” and “A policy of free exchange”.

The letters are arranged chronologically.

1888-1896, 1898-1899: folios 1-113 [Notes 1-4];

1900-1905, 1907-1908, 1910: folios 114-168.

Undated. Two outlines, [? 1893], of the proposed contents of what appear to be “A policy of free exchange”. Folios 169-170.

Notes.

[Note 1.] Folios 32-33. Letter, 25 November 1889, of E. Combe to John Murray IV concerning the possibility of translating “The English Poor”, by Thomas Mackay, into French.

[Note 2.] Folios 36-37. Letter, 2 December 1889, of E. Combe to John Murray IV concerning a French edition of “The English Poor”. The letter was returned by Thomas Mackay to Murray as an enclosure to his letter, 5 December 1889 (folios 34-35).

[Note 3.] Folios 40-41. Letter, 13 May 1891, of Thomas Mackay to John Murray IV enclosing (folios 42-43) a letter, 30 April 1891, of G.A. Smith to Mackay in which Smith suggests that a cheap edition of “A plea for liberty” should be produced.

[Note 4.] Folios 84-85. Letter, [16 October-29 November 1893], of John St Loe Strachey to Thomas Mackay.