Murray's papers include:
- Correspondence
- Papers relating to international affairs
- General political papers
- Academic and literary papers
- Family correspondence
- Personal papers
- Papers of Lady Mary Murray
- Papers of Murray's executors
Papers of Gilbert Murray
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Gilbert Murray 1-568; Gilbert Murray adds. 1-14
- Dates of Creation
- 1837-1960
- Language of Material
- English, and French.
- Physical Description
- 582 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Gilbert Murray (1866-1957) was a classicist and internationlist, and Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
Access Information
Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/specialcollections).
Acquisition Information
The papers were given to the Library in 1958.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, nos. 48476-49060.
A full catalogue is available in the Library.
Bibliography
The papers were extensively used in Sir Duncan Wilson, Gilbert Murray, O.M. (Oxford, 1988).