Ireland Literature Guide

The Ireland Literature Guide is an Irish online resource for Literature from Ireland

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp - The John Murray Archive

The National Library of Scotland is currently attempting to purchase and present one of the world's most significant literary and cultural archives from the past 250 years, the John Murray Archive. It contains over 150,000 items, including letters, manuscripts and journals from some of the greatest writers from 1768 to 1920. The image on the left is an original annotated proof of Don Juan by Lord Byron. In order to complete the purchase they need a final 6.5 million. Please give a donation

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