Archive of John Murray VI and authors associated with him.
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 Grey (publisher (VI), formerly Grey) (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 (colonial governor and ethnographer) (Person)
- Ingrams, William Harold (colonial official) (Person)
- Jabavu, Noni (writer ) (Person)
- Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer (novelist and screenwriter) (Person)
- Lancaster, Sir Osbert, Knight, cartoonist, author and critic , 1908-1986: transcriber (Person)
- Marchand, Leslie Alexis (scholar of English literature and Byron biographer) (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.
Extent
60 Linear metres
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposited, 2022, John R. Murray, London.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk