File 6 - Letters and papers from an envelope marked ‘Halliwell’s Dictionary | vol. 2 | Loose papers’

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS b/74/6

Title

Letters and papers from an envelope marked ‘Halliwell’s Dictionary | vol. 2 | Loose papers’

Date(s)

  • 18th c.-1904 (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

34 items

Context area

Archival history

Add. MS b. 74/6/1-13 were formerly in the envelope Add. MS b. 74/6/14.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

The work referred to on the label 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.

Access points

Dates of creation revision deletion

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