Papers of W. Aldis Wright relating to philology, etc.

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3 Letter from Edmund Brock to W. Aldis Wright Item 8 Nov. 1871
6 Postcard from W. W. Skeat to W. Aldis Wright Item 21 Feb. 1879
9 Verse translation of Catullus, lxxxiv, by S. W. Smith Rogers Item 1880
12 Postcard from W. W. Skeat to W. Aldis Wright Item 3 June 1885
14 Postcard from W. W. Skeat to W. Aldis Wright Item 7 Dec. 1899
18 Letter from W. W. Skeat to W. Aldis Wright Item late 19th or early 20th c.
2 Cutting from the Yorkshire Chronicle, containing an article entitled ‘The Yorkshire Dialects’ Item 2 Apr. 1870
3 The Educational Times and Journal of the College of Preceptors, containing a paper by Alexander J. Ellis entitled ‘The English Spelling Difficulty and its Remedy’ Item 1 May 1870
6 Proof of a pamphlet entitled Glossic, by Alexander J. Ellis Item c. 5 May 1870
8 Printed pamphlet entitled Varieties of English Pronunciation, by Alexander J. Ellis Item c. 2 Mar. 1870
10 Proof of the beginning of Book VII of The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding Item 26 Nov. 1873
12 The Yorkshireman, including an article in Yorkshire dialect by Ben Preston entitled ‘Pauper Papers’ Item 2 June 1877
13 Printed notice of an auction sale of agricultural land at the Castle Hotel, Haverfordwest, on 7 July 1877, with a handwritten note on the word ‘slang’ Item c. 7 July 1877
19 Proof of a specimen sheet of the English Dialect Dictionary Item 1890s
21 Printed prospectus of A Facsimile and Transcript of an Elizabethan Manuscript preserved at Alnwick Castle, transcribed and edited by Frank J. Burgoyne, with a printed order form Item 1904
5 Notes from lectures on philology, in an unidentified hand Item late 19th or early 20th c.
6 Table containing three lists of names (mainly surnames, apparently), dated respectively 11, 12, and 14 Edw. III, in an unidentified hand Item late 19th or early 20th c.
7 Notes on the Cetacea of the Mediterranean, in an unidentified hand Item late 19th or early 20th c.
2 Leaves from the Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, containing a review by Alfred Stern of David Masson’s Life of John Milton (1871) Item 4 Oct. 1871
3 Leaves from the Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen containing a review by Alfred Stern of David Masson’s edition of The Poetical Works of John Milton (3 vols., 1874) Item 7 July 1875
2 Printed notices of sales of farming stock, etc. File 1872-5
1 Printed notice inviting tenders for the lease of a farm at Feizor, near Clapham, Yorks., now in the occupation of Joseph Alderson, the tenders to be made to John Hartley of Clapham, Lancaster, by 24 Sept. Item 29 Aug. 1872 View
5 Printed notice of a sale of gimmers by J. & R. Pratt at Hawes (N. Yorks.) on 21 Sept. 1875 Item c. Sept. 1875 View
3 Cuttings relating to dialect words File 1867-1910
3 Cutting from the Cambridge Chronicle, containing a short notice of items for sale, in which the words ‘kine rods’ have been underlined Item 14 Mar. 1874
1 Cutting from Thomas Kerslake’s Catalogue of Books, containing details of a copy of Bensley’s edition of the Plays of Shakespeare (8 vols, 1804) and remarks on a conjectured misprint in The Two Gentlemen of Verona Item Jan. 1866
6 The Post Boy, containing a notice of the publication by Bernard Lintot of A Collection of Poems by Shakespeare, in two volumes Item 1-3 Mar. 1711
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