GB 0103 MS ADD 67 - Murray Illuminated Address

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GB 0103 MS ADD 67 1963 Collection (fonds) 1 volume Murray , Margaret Alice , 1863-1963 , Egyptologist
Margaret Murray was born in 1863, the youngest daughter of J C Murray, a businessman of Calcutta, and niece of the Reverend John Murray of Lambourn. She first entered University College London as a student in 1894, and in 1899 became a junior lecturer on Egyptology there. She was Assistant Professor of Egyptology at University College London from 1924 to 1935. She was a member of the Folk Lore Society from 1927 and President from 1953 to 1955. During her life she carried out many excavations in different parts of the world and published many books, mainly about Egypt. She died on 13 November 1963.

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Illuminated address written on vellum by Margaret Alexander and presented to Dr Murray to mark her hundredth birthday on 13 July 1963.

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Collection level description.

University College London Special Collections also holds correspondence of Margaret Murray, 1857-1926 (Ref: MS ADD 155); miscellaneous items given to University College London by her (Ref: MS ADD 372); Egyptology lecture notes and syllabuses, 1911-1938 (Ref: MS ADD 387); papers of Margaret Murray among the records of the Institute of Archaeology (Ref: UCLCA/IA); two items of correspondence with D M S Watson, 1948 (Ref: MS ADD 112); a letter to Mr Wray, 1958 (Ref: MS MISC 5M).

The British Library of Political and Economic Science holds letters from Margaret Murray to C G Seligman, c1912-1935 (Ref: Seligman Papers/4/2/2-4). The Folklore Society holds her correspondence and papers relating to folklore, c1909-1954.

Source: National Register of Archives. 1999, revised Aug 2001 Murray , Margaret Alice , 1863-1963 , Egyptologist

Unknown.

Illuminated address written on vellum by Margaret Alexander and presented to Dr Murray to mark her hundredth birthday on 13 July 1963.

Open.

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

• English

• Latin

English

University College London Special Collections also holds correspondence of Margaret Murray, 1857-1926 (Ref: MS ADD 155); miscellaneous items given to University College London by her (Ref: MS ADD 372); Egyptology lecture notes and syllabuses, 1911-1938 (Ref: MS ADD 387); papers of Margaret Murray among the records of the Institute of Archaeology (Ref: UCLCA/IA); two items of correspondence with D M S Watson, 1948 (Ref: MS ADD 112); a letter to Mr Wray, 1958 (Ref: MS MISC 5M).

Collection level description.

The British Library of Political and Economic Science holds letters from Margaret Murray to C G Seligman, c1912-1935 (Ref: Seligman Papers/4/2/2-4). The Folklore Society holds her correspondence and papers relating to folklore, c1909-1954.

• English