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

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2 Copy of a letter from W. St Clair Tisdall to Anna Deane Butcher Item 20 Nov. 1909
3 Printed sheet illustrating Anna Deane Butcher’s system of ‘orthoëpic print’ Item c. 1909
4 Printed sheet illustrating the interlinear types used in Anna Deane Butcher’s system of ‘ortho-type’ or ‘orthoëpic print’ Item c. 1909
3 Printed sheet containing the second amended report of a committee of the Cambridge Philological Society on the ‘Reform of Latin Pronunciation’, subscribed by John Peile, J. P. Postgate, and J. S. Reid Item 24 Nov. 1886
2 Letter from Joshua Fayle to W. Aldis Wright Item 15 Mar. 1871
5 Letter from W. W. Skeat to W. Aldis Wright Item 7 July 1876
17 Letter from W. W. Skeat to W. Aldis Wright Item 6 May (late 19th or early 20th c.)
9 Printed paper entitled Classification des dialectes anglais modernes, by Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte, accompanied by a map of the principal English dialects Item 1873
15 Printed notice headed ‘Directions to Readers for the English Dialect Dictionary’ Item c. 1886
2 Note by W. W. Skeat on the word ‘quintain’ (cf. As You Like It, I. ii. 230), with reference to the Canterbury Tales Item c. 1876
3 Transcripts by W. W. Skeat of inscriptions in Redgrave church, Suffolk, relating to Sir Nicholas and Lady Bacon, 1609 and 1616 Item late 19th c.
4 List of cognate Hebrew and Indo-Germanic roots, from Tregelles’ translation of Gesenius’ Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, in an unidentified hand Item late 19th or early 20th c.
8 List of corrigenda for an edition of Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Books I-III, in an unidentified hand Item late 19th or early 20th c.
13 Note by W. Aldis Wright of historical events referred to in Henry VIII Item late 19th or early 20th c.
15 Collation by W. Aldis Wright of two copies of the ‘Butter’ quarto of King Lear (1608) Item late 19th or early 20th c.
16 Note by W. Aldis Wright of passages in Budaeus’ De Asse quoted by Robert Burton in The Anatomy of Melancholy Item late 19th or early 20th c.
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
15 List of ‘Sussex Words’, in an unidentified hand Item late 19th or early 20th c.
17 List of notable words in Legh’s Accedens of Armory (1562, etc.) and Holme’s Academy of Armory (1688), compiled by W. Aldis Wright Item late 19th or early 20th c.
19 Notes by W. Aldis Wright on literary references to henbane and on the etymology of the word Item late 19th or early 20th c.
2 Letter from Thomas Colpitts to James Lambert(?) Item 30 Apr. 1793
3 Bill of a laundress of Settle, Yorks., in which the word ‘singlet’ has been underlined Item June 1868
7 Note by J. W. R. on the phrase ‘slike off’ Item 23 May 1885
8 Notes on the word ‘scale’, with reference to Coriolanus, I. i, in an unidentified hand Item 1880s?
11 List of ‘Hampshire Words’, in an unidentified hand Item late 19th or early 20th c.
12 Note by C. B. on the word ‘welch’ Item late 19th or early 20th c.
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