Typed Letter Signed to J. Gordon Murdoch, on behalf of Gilbert Murray, regarding G. K. Chesterton's candidacy for the Rectorship of Glasgow University.

Landscape 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Murdoch appears to have been 'misinformed as to Professor Murray having promised to write an article in support of Mr. G. K. Chesterton.' Murray is 'unable to undertake any more writing' as he is 'extremely busy at present'. According to Mair's entry in the Oxford DNB, from 1922 to 1927 she was employed by Gilbert Murray as his secretary-assistant in League of Nations affairs. Murdoch is not named, but the item comes from a batch of his correspondence relating to Chesterton's unsuccessful 1925 candidacy for the Rectorship of Glasgow University. (Murdoch, a member of the Glasgow University Liberal Club, campaigned on behalf of Chesterton, editing the rectorial magazine 'G.K.C.'. Chesterton lost the election to Sir Austen Chamberlain.)