Correspondence

Description

Original incoming and copies of outgoing letters between Harold Orton and Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers, publishers, editors, university administrators and academics. These relate to Orton's ongoing attempts to secure funding, not only for the support of fieldworkers in the field and editors working on the collected data, but also financial support to enable the publication of the Basic Material volumes. Orton offers feedback and encouragement to fieldworkers, who report to him in writing on a regular basis. This subseries also contains general, academic-related and administrative correspondence, generated by Orton in his capacity as Head of Department at the University of Leeds.

The larger part of this subseries was created during the period 1945-1975.

System of arrangement

This subseries has been arranged in the following sub-subseries:

- Fieldwork, 1945-1974

- Funding, 1946-1970

- Publication, 1951-1972

- General Administration, 1948-1968

- A Word Geography of England, 1970-1973

- Academic-Related, 1935-1975

- General Dialect Related Enquiries, 1929-1971


This is an imposed arrangement, as no original order was apparent. Orton's original ordering of individual files, most notably within the Academic-Related sub-subseries SED/1/1/6, has, however, been retained.

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

Access to the manuscript and printed items in this subfonds is unrestricted. Mini disc copies of the audio tape recordings are available for consultation in the searchroom of Special Collections, University of Leeds. Access copies of the gramophone disc recordings are not available.

Copyright in all Survey of English Dialects material resides with the University of Leeds.

© University of Leeds

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