Funding
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Funding
Classmark: LAVC/SED/1/1/2
Creator(s): Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
Date(s): 1946-1970
Size and medium: 16 files in 1 box.; 0.41 linear metres.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409572
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Harold Orton's preliminary enquiries of academic, charitable and commercial trusts regarding Research Awards/sponsorship to support the work of fieldworkers and editorial team members. Those organisations approached include the British Academy, Burton Trust, Gulbenkian Foundation, Leverhulme Trust, Nuffield Foundation, the Philological Society and its honorary secretary, L. R. Palmer, the Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and Yorkshire Television. This sub-sub-series also includes Orton's correspondence with successive Vice-Chancellors of the University of Leeds regarding the University's financial support of his work. It also includes Orton's typed progress reports on the Survey sent to one of the supporting Trusts, the Leverhulme.
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.
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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