Additional Manuscripts b

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
1 Leaf from the Gentleman’s Magazine, containing an article by J. M. (John Mitford) entitled ‘Milton’s Orthography’ Item Mar. 1837
4 Leaf from the St James’s Gazette, containing the first part of an article by John W. Hales entitled 'Milton and the Gray's Inn Walks' Item 29 July 1891 View
6 Cutting from the East Suffolk Gazette, containing an article headed ‘Wenhaston’, in which the word ‘slaker’ has been underlined Item 19 Apr. 1892
7 Cutting from the Standard, containing an article headed ‘Snipe and Snipe-shooting’, in which the words ‘wisp’, ‘bunch’, ‘quakes’, and ‘caffle’ have been underlined Item 15 Nov. 1900
6 Text of the ballad ‘Captain Ward’ (Child Ballad No. 287), in an unidentified hand, with a quotation from Twelfth Night in the hand of Robert H. Groome Item Nov. 1877?
1 Letter from Carl Horstmann to W. Aldis Wright Item 1877 x 1892
4 Printed notice headed ‘Chronicles and Memorials [in capitals]’, issued by John Romilly, Master of the Rolls Item 1 Nov. 1862
8 Letter from Sir T. Duffus Hardy to W. Aldis Wright Item 17 Mar. 1874
1 Printed circular letter issued by J. P. Postgate and Wilfred A. Gill, honorary secretaries of the Cambridge Philological Society Item 26 Nov. 1886
2 Printed notice issued to members of the Cambridge Philological Society, headed ‘Reform of Latin Pronunciation’ and containing a summary of answers to a circular issued on 22 Feb. 1886 Item 1886
4 Printed notice issued by the Cambridge Philological Society detailing the scheme of ‘re-stored pronunciation of Latin’ to be recommended at the annual general meeting on 1 Feb. 1906 Item 1906
10 Letter from E. B. Cowell to W. Aldis Wright Item 29 Oct. 1884
13 Postcard from E. B. Cowell to W. Aldis Wright Item 8 Nov. 1897
15 Envelope addressed by S. M. Schiller-Szinessy to W. Aldis Wright Item late 19th c.
5 Proof of a pamphlet entitled Glossic, by Alexander J. Ellis, annotated by the author Item c. 5 May 1870
7 Printed leaflet advertising The Reliquary, a quarterly archaeological journal Item c. 1870
11 Printed pamphlet entitled T’Gurt Railway Jubilee: My Prisence & Harty Approvil, by ‘“T’ Licend Hawker,” Teesdale’, in dialect Item c. 1875
16 Corrected proofs of part of W. W. Skeat’s ‘Notes on English Etymology’, published in Transactions of the Philological Society, 1885–7, pp. 283–333 Item c. 1886
17 Part of a leaf of a German journal, containing an article headed ‘Giegler’s Echos der neueren gesprochenen Sprachen’, apparently a review of R. Schindler’s Echo of the Spoken English, First Part: Children’s Talk (1890) Item c. 1890
18 Printed prospectus for the English Dialect Dictionary Item 1894
20 Proof of a specimen sheet of the English Dialect Dictionary Item 1890s
1 Journal of the Society of Arts, containing a paper by Alexander J. Ellis entitled ‘On a Practical Method of Meeting the Spelling Difficulty in School and in Life’ Item 22 Apr. 1870
1-2 Two notebooks containing lecture notes Item [19th cent.?]
9 Letter from F. E. A. Trayes to Henry Jackson Item 28 Oct. [18--?]
15 Signature of A. N. Phillips Item [19th cent.?]
12 Printed volume of Plato's Gorgias with MS notes Item [19th cent.]
16 Notebook headed "Lecture on Euripides. Lent Term 1857" Item 1857
18-19 Two offprints, On the Genuineness of the Sophista of Plato and on Some of Its Philosophical Bearings Item 1858
8 Notebook headed "Miscell. Philosoph." Item [19th cent.]
5 Notes on Thucydides, for lectures Item [19th cent.]