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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Letters to John Murray, publishers, from Samuel Smiles regarding his own works |
| Date | 12 Jul 1870 - 21 Nov 1885 |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Author | Smiles, Samuel |
| Theme | Business and Finance; Literature and Poetry |
| Description | Letters primarily from Samuel Smiles to John Murray III, with some correspondence to Robert Cooke and John Murray IV. Correspondence concerns works of Smiles published by Murray, including “Character” and “Thrift”, biographical writings on Boulton and Watt, a biography of John Murray II called “A publisher and his friends”, and “A boy’s voyage around the world” written by Samuel Smiles the younger and edited by his father. Also includes a title page from Smiles' "Robert Dick: Geologist and botanist" and a stranger's request for a work on David Livingstone. The letters are arranged in chronological order. |
| Folio Information |
1870-1871: folios 1-20; 1872-1873: folios 21-26; 1874-1875: folios 27-50; 1876-1877: folios 53-76;(1) 1878-1879: folios 77-95;(2) 1880-1881: folios 96-103; 1882-1883: folios 104-113; 1884-1885: folios 114-122. 1. Includes letters, 27 August and 10 September 1877, of Thomas Annan to Samuel Smiles. In these Annan proposes a biography of David Livingstone be written: folios 68-69 and 72-73. 2. Includes letter, 18 July 1878, of Samuel Smiles to P. Skelton: folio 78. |
| Keywords | authors biography business finance publishing family travel and exploration travel writing Quarterly Review copyright agreement non-fiction |
| People | Smiles, Samuel Murray, John III Murray, John II Murray, John IV Smiles, Samuel A Cooke, Robert Livingstone, David |
| Places | London; Belfast; Margate; United Kingdom; Rome; Italy; Frankfurt; Germany; Lucerne; Switzerland |
| NLS Collection | Incoming correspondence received by John Murray, publishers |
| NLS Reference | MS.41100 |
| Disclaimer | Folio information comes from the library catalogue and is correct to the best of our knowledge. |
| Copyright and Source Archive | The National Library of Scotland |