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
Name of creator
Repository
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.