File 5 - Letters and papers from an envelope marked 'Halliwell’s Dictionary | vol. i. | Loose Papers'

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Add. MS b/74/5

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Letters and papers from an envelope marked 'Halliwell’s Dictionary | vol. i. | Loose Papers'

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  • 1866-95 (Creation)

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Add. MS b. 74/5/1-18 were formerly in the envelope Add. MS b. 74/5/19.

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The work referred to on the envelope is J. O. Halliwell’s Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, first published in 1847. The papers in Add. MS b. 74/5–6 may have been collected for the purpose of improving that work.

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      This description was created by A. C. Green in 2022.

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