The correspondence of A. Murray, 3rd Viscount Elibank, is of interest to historians chiefly for the light it casts upon Anglo-American relations & the foreign policy of F. D. Roosevelt. A. Murray was a Scottish Liberal MP from 1908 to 1923. Between 1910 & 1914 he was the Parliamentary Private Secretary of Sir E. Grey, the Foreign Secretary in Asquith's Liberal Government. He worked closely with Grey in the years leading up to the 1st World War & was with Grey when war broke out. In 1917, having previously served in India & China then with distinction in France & Belgium as a Lieutenant-Colonel during the 1st World War, he was appointed Assistant Military Attache to the British Embassy in Washington, D. C. It was there that he met F. Roosevelt, who at that time was Assistant Secretary of the Navy in W. Wilson's Democratic Administration. The 2 men struck up a close friendship which continued on & off until Roosevelt's death in 1945. Roosevelt was sympathetic to the Allied cause in 1917 & was also fast becoming a major figure in the Democratic Party. In 1920 he ran unsuccessfully as the Vice Presidential candidate for the Democrats. In the 1920s Roosevelt & Murray endured difficult times, both personally & politically. The Democrats & Liberals were out of favour & the 2 men also had to overcome serious illness - Roosevelt having succumbed to polio & Murray to nervous exhaustion. But Roosevelt's recovery & his election as President in 1932 rekindled their friendship & throughout the 1930s & the 2nd World War the 2 men were engaged in an illuminating correspondence that is the main focus of the Murray papers. Murray's correspondence, which includes references to his visits to Roosevelt in 1935 & 1938, helps to show how the President's foreign policy evolved in the era of American isolationism & British appeasement. It refers to events such as the London Economic Conference of 1933, the Quarantine speech of 1937 & the Munich settlement of 1938. It also casts light upon Anglo-American relations during the 2nd World War. Murray's papers include letters to & from other important figures in Anglo-American relations between the 2 World Wars such as Colonel House, W. Wilson's key adviser during the Great War, W. Runciman, President of the Board of Trade (1931 - 37) & W. L. Mackenzie King, the Canadian Prime Minister (1921 - 26, 1926 - 30 and 1935 - 48). But it is his correspondence with F. Roosevelt that takes centre stage in this significant collection. Drawn from Ms. 8805 - 8812 of the Elibank papers held at the National Library of Scotland, this correspondence is published with an introduction by Dr T. McCulloch, Head of American Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University.