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December 26, 2005: Scottish Fundraisers Look to U.S. to Help Purchase Literary Archive
"Expatriate Scots living in the United States are to be asked to help raise the £6.5m-plus shortfall in funding to buy the John Murray Archive for the National Library of Scotland. But those behind the scheme also hope literature-loving Americans of all ancestral backgrounds will contribute to the fund."
"The Murray Archive, valued at around £45m, contains more than 150,000 original manuscripts, private letters and other papers from writers including Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, Sir Walter Scott and Benjamin Disraeli."
