Additional Manuscripts b

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Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
2 Note by W. W. Skeat on the word ‘quintain’ (cf. As You Like It, I. ii. 230), with reference to the Canterbury Tales Item c. 1876
3 Transcripts by W. W. Skeat of inscriptions in Redgrave church, Suffolk, relating to Sir Nicholas and Lady Bacon, 1609 and 1616 Item late 19th c.
4 List of cognate Hebrew and Indo-Germanic roots, from Tregelles’ translation of Gesenius’ Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, in an unidentified hand Item late 19th or early 20th c.
8 List of corrigenda for an edition of Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Books I-III, in an unidentified hand Item late 19th or early 20th c.
13 Note by W. Aldis Wright of historical events referred to in Henry VIII Item late 19th or early 20th c.
15 Collation by W. Aldis Wright of two copies of the ‘Butter’ quarto of King Lear (1608) Item late 19th or early 20th c.
16 Note by W. Aldis Wright of passages in Budaeus’ De Asse quoted by Robert Burton in The Anatomy of Melancholy Item late 19th or early 20th c.
2 Letter from Thomas Colpitts to James Lambert(?) Item 30 Apr. 1793
3 Bill of a laundress of Settle, Yorks., in which the word ‘singlet’ has been underlined Item June 1868
7 Note by J. W. R. on the phrase ‘slike off’ Item 23 May 1885
8 Notes on the word ‘scale’, with reference to Coriolanus, I. i, in an unidentified hand Item 1880s?
11 List of ‘Hampshire Words’, in an unidentified hand Item late 19th or early 20th c.
12 Note by C. B. on the word ‘welch’ Item late 19th or early 20th c.
1 Letter from Adam Sedgwick to William Whewell Item [3 May 1845?]
9-12 Four letters from Julius Lloyd to W. G. Clark Item 1863-64
15 Letter from H. J. Roby to W. G. Clark Item 26 Nov. 1863
17-18 Two letters from Charles Badham to W. G. Clark Item Jan., Apr. [186-?]
26 Letter from Howard Staunton to W. G. Clark Item 6 Sept. 1866
27 Extracts from Senior Bursar's Books made by William Aldis Wright and J. W. Clark Item [19th cent.]
30 Letter from W. E. Cooper to D. N. Smith Item 10 Mar. 1925
31-32 Two letters from E. A. Willcox to D. N. Smith Item 10, 14 Apr. 1925
1 Miscellaneous printed Shakespeariana literature Item 1864-1868
4 Preface to Macbeth Item [n.d.]
20 Copy of Scribner's Monthly with article on The Shakespeare Death Mask Item Jul 1874
21 Photograph of Shakespeare's death mask Item [n.d.]
24 Letter, printed in the Athenaeum, by T. S. Baynes on 'Early notice of Shakespeare' Item 1 May 1877
45 Letter from Henry Frowde at Oxford University Press to William Aldis Wright, with newscutting on Henry VI part 1 Item c 7 Sept 1898
5 Transcript by W. Aldis Wright of a memorandum by John Howard on the choosing of ‘Feast Makers … to haine the weavers Gild [of Norwich] at whitsontid 1673’, from a manuscript formerly in the possession of Peter Le Neve and Francis Blomefield Item 3 Oct. 1868
7 Letter from Edmund Gosse to W. Aldis Wright Item 5 May 1885
9 Letter from Charles E. Grant to W. Aldis Wright Item 4 Apr. 1887