Includes letters from E. Gordon Duff, W. W. Skeat, Francis Jenkinson, Léopold Delisle, Falconer Madan, C. W. Dyson Perrins, W. R. B. Prideaux, Edward Scott, Harry Farr, Emma Dronkers, Douglas Hamer, A. J. A. Symons, J. Edge-Partington, James Guthrie, George P. Winship, R. Stewart-Brown, and John ...
Contains items relating to Bibliographica and Books About Books, a journal and a series of books respectively, to which Pollard contributed; an autograph entry for the Dictionary of National Bibliography on Henry Bradshaw; an in memoriam for Richard Garnett; an article on the better distribution ...
Contains the formal notice of Pollard’s appointment as Assistant Keeper of the British Museum, a contract for Pollard’s book Shakespeare’s Fight With the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His Text, an anonymous memoir of Pollard, and items relating to an appeal for subscriptions tow...
Contains research notes, notes on watermarks, a list of plays without the printer’s address in Hazlitt, the text of Walter Skeat’s verse rendering of the Epitaphium Damonis, and scraps of printed matter found as fly-leaves and part of the bindings of a Latin Aristotle.
Includes correspondence with W. W. Greg, Bower Marsh, George Moore Smith, R. F. Scott, Falconer Madan, W. F. Dunn, Sir William Osler, H. G. Aldis, E. Gordon Duff, C. Sayle, G. Douglas Amery, F. S. Ferguson, S. K. Jones, E. V. Stock, Allen Mawer, L. F. Powell, H. B. Charlton, J. Dover Wilson, Mabe...
Includes an 1895 poem on Joan of Arc, a review of Ernst Rühl's Grobianus in England, illustrations for a 1912 talk on printers' and publishers' devices, an article on phonetic transcription, an offprint of 'Capital letters in Elizabethan handwriting', short reviews of books, a prospectus for The ...
Papers relating to the Joint Committee on Grammatical Terminology
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Contains: On the Terminology of Grammar, the Committee’s report (1922); copies of letters from Prof. Otto Jespersen and Prof. G. C. Moore Smith; a copy of an extract from a 1904 address by Jespersen on the history of the English language; a copy of a note by H. M. R. Murray on the applicability t...