In what is seen in the UK as a “major coup,” a “multi-million pound lottery grant has secured for Scotland the most important literary archive to become available in the last 100 years,” according to a BBC Newswire story. The Heritage Lotter Fund announced it will give £17.7 million to the National Library of Scotland so that it can buy the archive of the John Murray publishing house. The transaction is a relief to many who feared that the trove could be moved out of the UK by a foreign purchaser. As the report details, Murray founded the company in 1768, and through “Seven successive Murray generations built up the archive with the close relationships each enjoyed with the writers of their time helping to make it a ‘who’s who’ of 19th century society.” The archive consists of 150,000 manuscripts and letters, including “correspondence between the publisher and influential figures including Jane Austen, Charles Darwin, Sir Walter Scott, Benjamin Disraeli, David Livingstone, Thomas Carlyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edith Wharton.”