Fieldwork
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Fieldwork
Classmark: LAVC/SED/1/1/1
Creator(s): Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
Date(s): 1945-1974
Size and medium: 11 files in 1 box.; 0.41 linear metres.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409571
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Correspondence between Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth regarding linguistic research and surveys, their collaboration on a linguistic atlas of England and the development of an English dialect questionnaire; also between Dieth and Peter Wright regarding the latter's fieldwork; individuals writing in response to Orton's radio broadcasts and local newspaper articles on his dialect survey; Orton's responses and letters of thanks to informants he and Dieth visited; correspondence with Survey fieldworkers, Michael Barry, David Parry, Donald Sykes, Martyn Wakelin, Peter Wright and John Wright, concerning fieldwork progress and other academic administrative matters; correspondence with Patrick Saul of the British Institute of Recorded Sound regarding the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies obtaining copies of copy recordings made by the BBC from original Survey field recordings.
System of arrangement
Files within the sub-subseries are arranged in a broadly chronological and alphabetical order, the latter by personal/corporate name, or by subject. Individual letters within each file are arranged chronologically and alphabetically by the sender's surname.
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.
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