Murray, now the 3rd Viscount Elibank, continued to correspond with Eleanor Roosevelt in his final years. Writing to her in March 1954, he said: "I much wish you were about to take your accustomed seat on the sofa in my sitting-room". He also commented on the divisions in the Republican Party over the excesses of "McCarthyism" and Eisenhower's failure, as Murray put it, "to defend that great soldier-statesman, General George Marshall, against Senator McCarthy's monstrous and unworthy slurs". By contrast, Murray was enthusiastic about Adlai Stevenson, the rising star of the Democrats (Murray to Eleanor Roosevelt, 8 Mar 1954). The former First Lady replied: "I think Adlai Stevenson is coming along and I hope he will be our next Democratic candidate" (Eleanor Roosevelt to Murray, 30 Mar 1954). She was unable to get to London that year but met up with Murray in March 1955 on her way to visit Israel. Prior to dining with Murray she was received by the Queen and Queen Mother, had a meeting with Eden and lunch with Sir Winston and Lady Churchill (Note by Murray, 11 Mar 1955).Murray's other main correspondent in these years was Sir Walford Selby, Minister to Austria 1930-36. They shared similar views on the inter-war years and the events leading to Munich and the outbreak of war in 1939. In particular, they felt that successive foreign secretaries after 1931 were as guilty of appeasing Hitler as Chamberlain himself. An opportunity to debate this issue arose when Sir John (later Lord) Simon died in January 1954. Simon's obituary in The Times was very critical of his role as foreign secretary, 1931-35, but this verdict was challenged by Leo Amery, the former MP, in a letter published on 12 January. Murray then wrote his own letter to The Times, rebutting Amery's defence of Simon and adding: "It cannot be said that I waited until Simon was dead before criticising his Foreign Secretaryship. That has never been my practice as, inter alia, Lloyd George and Winston Churchill have had reason to know" (Murray to The Editor of The Times, 17 Jan 1954).Murray received full support for his attack on Simon from Selby, who had a published a memoir of the 1930s entitled "Diplomatic Twilight" the year before. Selby wrote to Murray to congratulate him on his "terrific" letter to The Times, adding: "It was during Simon's Foreign Secretaryship that was laid the seeds of the Munich disaster and the disaster of 1939" (Selby to Murray, 19 Jan 1954). Lord Vansittart, who had been Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1930 to 1938, also joined the debate with a defence of Simon but Selby was equally dismissive of him, arguing that he was out to save his own reputation (Selby to Murray, 21 Jan 1954). Selby wrote his own letter to The Times arguing that Vansittart's claims to have warned about Germany's strength after 1935 were exaggerated and that, in any case, he and the Foreign Office had failed to devise a realistic plan to contain Germany. The letter was not published but illustrates the way in which the arguments of the 1930s were being refought in the 1950s (Selby to The Times, 22 Jan 1954).Selby also urged Murray to publish the story of his relationship with Franklin Roosevelt, especially as it would shed light on British foreign policy in the 1930s (Selby to Murray, 6 Aug 1954). Murray had been considering this ever since the President's death in 1945 but finally committed himself to the task in September 1954. "It will be of a personal nature, descriptive of my long friendship with him, and of Faith's and my visits to him at the White House and Hyde Park", he told Selby. He added that he did not want this memoir to be primarily political, although it would necessarily allude to Roosevelt's "help to Great Britain before and during the 1939-45 War" (Murray to Selby, 25 Sep 1954). Murray's memoir eventually appeared as an article in The Contemporary Review in June 1955 entitled "Franklin Roosevelt, Friend of Britain". It was his last substantial publication. He died, aged 83, in December 1962, one month after Eleanor Roosevelt.