The John Murray Archive

The John Murray Archive
Housed atThe National Library of Scotland
CuratorsCurator of John Murray Archive
Size (no. of items)1 million +
Websitewww.nls.uk/collections/john-murray

The John Murray Archive is a collection of 234 years' worth of manuscripts, private letters, and business papers from various notable, mostly British, authors including correspondence between Mary Shelley and Lord Byron, and letters of Jane Austen and Charles Darwin. The Archive consists of over a million items, valued at more than £100 million, and is kept at the National Library of Scotland (NLS) in Edinburgh, Scotland.