The letters are arranged chronologically under each correspondent.

Palgrave, Francis Turner. Letters, 1854-1870, from Francis T. Palgrave to John Murray III. Among the subjects mentioned are: letters 1854-1855, Palgrave’s suggestions for changes to the “next edition” (3rd (1855) of the “Handbook of painting. The Italian schools”, by Franz Kugler; and, letter, 7 January 1861, Palgrave’s request to be allowed to include a number of poems by Lord Byron in “a little selection of English Lyrical poetry” (the “Golden Treasury”) that Palgrave was then arranging with the “advice and assistance” of Alfred Tennyson. 1854-1855, 1861, 1863, 1870: folios 1-21.

Note. Folios 5-7. Letter, 1 September 1854, from Francis T. Palgrave to Charles L. Eastlake, editor of 3rd edition of Kugler’s “Handbook of painting”.

Palgrave, Gwenllian Florence. Letter, 7 March 1925, from Gwenllian Palgrave to John Murray IV asking his opinion of Raphael Roche and his “gift of healing”. Folios 22-23.

Palgrave, Reginald Francis Douce. Letters, 1859-1860, from Reginald Palgrave to John Murray III concerning Palgrave’s “A hand-book to Reigate ...” (1860). Folios 24-27.

Letter/receipt, 18 April 1879, from Reginald Palgrave to William Smith both acknowledging the receipt of, and thanking him for, a payment concerning Palgrave’s article for the “Quarterly Review”, April 1879: “Pym and Shaftesbury”: two Popish plots”. Folios 28-29.

Note, 20 December 1898, from Reginald Palgrave to John Murray IV. Folio 30.

Palgrave, Robert Harry Inglis. Letters, 1871-1915, from Robert Palgrave to John Murray III, John Murray IV and Hallam Murray. The letters mostly concern the preparation and publication of works by Robert Palgrave on economic and monetary affairs, particularly: “The local taxation of Great Britain and Ireland” (1871); “Notes on banking in Great Britain and Ireland, Sweden, Denmark and Hamburg” (1873); “Bank rate and the money market in England, France, Germany, Holland and Belgium, 1844-1900” (1903). The letters for May 1903 concern the possibility that Palgrave was then to receive a knighthood. 1871, 1873-1875, 1877, 1880, 1887: folios 31-47;

1901-1903: folios 48-71;

1904: folios 72-84;

1905-1907, 1915: folios 85-93.

Note. Folios 64-65. Wet-press copy of letter, 19 May 1903, from John Murray IV to Robert Palgrave. Palgrave, William Gifford. Letters, 1873-1884, from William Palgrave to John Murray III. They concern the preparation by Palgrave of two articles for the “Quarterly Review”: “Provincial Turkey” (October 1874); and, “Malay Archipelago” (April 1884). 1873, 1883-1884: folios 94-99.