Murray Collection

The Murray Collection is a collection of philatelic material relating to China that forms part of the British Library Philatelic Collections.^[1]

The collection includes material from the 1865 Large Dragon issues through to the mid-1950s, with some blocks and covers. It was formed by Engineer Captain J.A. Murray and his son Dr S.E. Murray, and presented to the library in 1980 by Maurice Murray, the grandson of J.A. Murray.^[1]

References

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1 2 The Murray Collection. British Library, 29 January 2012.

British Library

Named
collections

Ephemera	Ettridge Collection Evanion Collection Francis Place Collection Jaffray Collection National Reports Collection
Literature	Ashley Library Cotton Library Dexter Collection Durrell Collection Eccles Collection Ediciones Vigía Garrick Collection Hannas Collection Harold Pinter Archive King's Library Leyden Medical Dissertations Paston Letters Private Case Suppressed Safe collection Thomason Collection Todd-Bowden Collection of Tauchnitz Editions
Manuscripts	Arundel Manuscripts Coptic Language Collection Cotton Collection Egerton Collection Harleian Collection Royal manuscripts King's manuscripts Lansdowne manuscripts Stowe manuscripts Syriac Collection Stefan Zweig Collection
Maps	Beudeker Collection
Newspapers	Burney Collection
Philatelic	Bailey Collection Blackburn Collection Bojanowicz Collection Booth Papers Burnett Collection Campbell-Johnston Collection Chismon Collection Chinchen Collection Contributions Agency Collection Crawford Library Crown Agents Archive Crown Agents Collection Davies Collection Ewen Collection Feldheim Collection Fitzgerald Collection Fletcher Collection Foreign and Commonwealth Office Foreign Office Collection General Collection Ginger Collection H.M. Customs and Excise Collection H.M. Stationery Office Collection Harrison Collection Harrison & Sons Collection Heys Collection Imperial War Museum stamp collection Inland Revenue Stamping Archive Johnson Collection Kaluski Collection Kay Collection Langmead Collection Landmark Trust Lundy Archive McInroy Collection Model Collection Monks Collection Mosely Collection Muraleetharan Papers Murray Collection Photograph Collection Postal Authority Publicity Collection R.P.S.L. Handouts Collection Row Collection Ryan Collection Seymour Collection Scott Collection Shelley Collection Sherborn Collection Smith Collection Supplementary Collection Tapling Collection Treasury Excise Correspondence Turner Collection of Forgeries Turner Collection of Newspaper Tax Stamps Turner Collection of Railway Letter Stamps U.P.U. Collection Walker Collection Williams Papers Wilson-Todd Collection
Sound	British Library Sound Archive Oral History of British Science St Mary-le-Bow Debates