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Letter from Anna Deane Butcher to W. Aldis Wright
Add. MS b/74/12/1 · Item · 20 Nov. 1909
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

C/o Miss (Mary A.) Hollingworth, Leithen, Newnham Road, Bedford.—Asks him to write a testimonial to the Pitt Press in support of her system of ‘orthotype’ (‘a method of Printing Reform versus Spelling Reform’), and encloses related papers.

(With envelope. Undated. Postmarked 20 Nov. 1909.)

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c/o of† Miss Hollingworth
Leithen, Newnham Road, Bedford

Dear Mr Wright,

The Pitt Press staff are now deciding whether they will publish my Orthotype Method or no. You will remember I asked your advice about it when we were staying at Dr Ginsburg’s. It is a method of Printing Reform versus Spelling Reform intended to save our international words such as “nation” “philosopher” {1} etc. from destruction at the hands of the Spelling Reformers. It is evident that if they succeed there will be no longer any English Language,—but an American, Anglo-Indian, Anglo-Chinese, Scotch, Irish, South British, {2} North British or Anglo-African—language etc. in these several countries. i.e. Our Empire will have no common language.

Could you send me a testimonial to the effect that you disapprove of the method of sacrificing what is permanent & international i e the spelling, to that which is local & transitory i.e. the sound, & that if a phonetic key is necessary for students & teachers you prefer Orthotype which does not alter the spelling. I enclose you a copy of a letter just received from W. St Clair Tisdall D.D. who is a well-known Orientalist & reputed to know 40 languages. You will see that he considers Orthotype indispensable.

I should be very grateful for a quick reply to the Pitt Press (the secretary has my manuscript) or to myself.

With very kind regards | Believe me
Yours sincerely
Anne Deane Butcher

[Direction on envelope:] Wm Aldis Wright Esq. L.L.D. | Trinity College | Cambridge

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The envelope was postmarked at Bedford on 20 November 1909.

{1} Opening inverted commas supplied.

{2} Comma supplied.

† Sic.
Page proofs of Todhunter's Account of the Writings of William Whewell
Add. MS a/36/1 · Item · c. 1874-1876
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Page proof of Todhunter's Rev. William Whewell, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, An Account of his Writings with selections from his literary and scientific correspondence with corrections throughout. Lacks 3 gatherings of the second volume, pp. 369-416. Probably J. L. Hammond's copy. Accompanied by a printed appeal for Whewell's letters signed in print by J. L. Hammond.
Material intended as appendices to A. B. Cobban's The King's Hall within the University of Cambridge in the Later Middle Ages
Add. MS a/189/1 · Item · [1969]
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Typescript and photomechanical copies of typescript pages of tables of information relating to King's Hall (a) long-tenured King's Hall fellowships, (b) evidence for survey of probable geographical origins of King's Scholars, (c) Cambridge civil law graduates (late thirteenth to mid-fifteenth century, (d) list of all known King's Hall commoners and semi-commoners, (e) list of King's Scholars who took the M.A. and/or degrees in the superior faculties between 1317 and 1450, (f) list of children and clerks of the chapel royal admitted to the King's Hall between 1382 and 1417, (g) evidence for numerical analysis of committees of King's Hall seneschals, (h) lists of King's Hall ex-fellow pensioners.
A note on the first page records that the material was placed here after it was decided to omit these intended appendices from the printed book.

 Cobban, Alan Balfour (b 1939), historian