Questionnaire Version 1
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Questionnaire Version 1
Classmark: LAVC/SED/2/1/1
Creator(s): Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956)
Date(s): 1946-1947
Size and medium: 1 box with 9 files of typed papers; 1 A5 ring-bound ms. notebook; 1 magazine file with 5 ms. response books and 1 stapled ms. notebook; 1 box of ms. index cards.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409589
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
This sub-subseries includes typescript drafts of version 1 of the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire; correspondence with the Yorkshire Dialect Society; an ms. notebook and fieldwork response books belonging to Harold Orton recording dialect responses at locations in Bradwell, Castleton, Tideswell and Hathersage (all Derbyshire); and a series of index cards completed in ms. by Harold Orton, recording dialect responses of a speaker from Drax [? Mr. Shipley] to version 1 of the Questionnaire.
Provenance
The recordings from locations in Derbyshire probably predate the compilation of version 1 of the Questionnaire. Orton undertook exploratory investigations of dialect in Derbyshire and Yorkshire in September 1946, but Orton and Dieth did not begin work in earnest on the first version of the Questionnaire until August 1947. Orton may have used responses gathered during this exploratory fieldwork to inform the compilation of the first version of the Questionnaire. See Craig Fees, 'The Imperilled Inheritance: Dialect and Folklife Studies at the University of Leeds 1946-1962. Part 1: Harold Orton and the English Dialect Survey' (London: The Folklore Society, 1991).
System of arrangement
The arrangement of the files is roughly chronological. Larger file sections have been housed in two physical files. The index cards are arranged alphabetically by Questionnaire item.
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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