Additional Manuscripts b

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
12 Postcard from W. W. Skeat to W. Aldis Wright Item 3 June 1885
14 Postcard from W. W. Skeat to W. Aldis Wright Item 7 Dec. 1899
18 Letter from W. W. Skeat to W. Aldis Wright Item late 19th or early 20th c.
2 Cutting from the Yorkshire Chronicle, containing an article entitled ‘The Yorkshire Dialects’ Item 2 Apr. 1870
3 The Educational Times and Journal of the College of Preceptors, containing a paper by Alexander J. Ellis entitled ‘The English Spelling Difficulty and its Remedy’ Item 1 May 1870
6 Proof of a pamphlet entitled Glossic, by Alexander J. Ellis Item c. 5 May 1870
8 Printed pamphlet entitled Varieties of English Pronunciation, by Alexander J. Ellis Item c. 2 Mar. 1870
10 Proof of the beginning of Book VII of The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding Item 26 Nov. 1873
12 The Yorkshireman, including an article in Yorkshire dialect by Ben Preston entitled ‘Pauper Papers’ Item 2 June 1877
13 Printed notice of an auction sale of agricultural land at the Castle Hotel, Haverfordwest, on 7 July 1877, with a handwritten note on the word ‘slang’ Item c. 7 July 1877
19 Proof of a specimen sheet of the English Dialect Dictionary Item 1890s
21 Printed prospectus of A Facsimile and Transcript of an Elizabethan Manuscript preserved at Alnwick Castle, transcribed and edited by Frank J. Burgoyne, with a printed order form Item 1904
3 Receipt from Thomas W. Harris Item 26 Apr. 1913
5 Printed examination papers in with Henry Jackson's lecture notes Item 1897, 1904
7 Letter from Reggie Balfour to Henry Jackson Item 7 Apr. 1898
8 Letter from W. J. Boycott to Henry Jackson Item [19th cent.?]
12 Signature of M. Llewelyn Davies Item [19th cent.?]
13 Signature of M. G. Hirschfeld Item [19th cent.?]
17 Signature of G. A. Poole Item [19th cent.?]
6 Notebook headed "Platonis Sophista, Theaeteteus, Menon, Euthydemus" Item 1833
1-2 Sanskrit vowel and consonant flashcards Item [19th cent.]
3-4 Notes on Greek and Roman drama etc. for lectures Item [19th cent.]
9 Notebook headed "Livy Bk. XXII" Item 1832-1833
10 Notebook headed "Essay on the Modern German school of Historians Read before the Leicester Library & Philosophical Society" Item May 1837
5 Notes from lectures on philology, in an unidentified hand Item late 19th or early 20th c.
6 Table containing three lists of names (mainly surnames, apparently), dated respectively 11, 12, and 14 Edw. III, in an unidentified hand Item late 19th or early 20th c.
7 Notes on the Cetacea of the Mediterranean, in an unidentified hand Item late 19th or early 20th c.
5 Letter from Thomas McK. Hughes to W. Aldis Wright Item June 1873
13-33 Miscellaneous notes of notable words and phrases, mostly in the hand of W. Aldis Wright Item late 19th or early 20th c.
3 Note from T. S. Woollaston to W. G. Clark Item 16 Feb. 1864