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Fieldwork

Orton, Harold (1898-1975)

1945-1974

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 questionna...

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Fieldwork File 1

1947-1948

Correspondence between Harold Orton and the Bursar at the University of Leeds; and report on Paul Wettstein’s fieldwork testing the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire in Derbyshire. 1 file. 1947-1948.

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Fieldwork File 2

1945-1956

Correspondence between Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth regarding linguistic research, and plans for a collaborative survey leading to the production of a linguistic atlas of England. This correspondence ...

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Fieldwork File 3

1951-1955

Correspondence between Peter Wright and Eugen Dieth, and Harold Orton and Dieth regarding the Questionnaire for the Survey of English Dialects. 1 file. 1951-1955.

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Fieldwork File 4

1955

Correspondence between Harold Orton and Eugen Dieth regarding their collaboration on the Survey of English Dialects, including a suggested agreement on future work and citation of the research. 1 file...

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Fieldwork File 5

1949-1953

Miscellaneous correspondence between Orton and various correspondents relating to dialect. Filed in alphabetical order by correspondent surname. 1 file. 1949-1953.

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Fieldwork File 6

1952

Correspondence between Harold Orton and various correspondents regarding help with Survey of English Dialects fieldworker Stanley Ellis’s fieldwork in Sheffield. 1 file. 1952.

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Fieldwork File 7

1958-1967

Correspondence between Harold Orton and Michael Barry regarding Barry’s Survey of English Dialects fieldwork in Essex, Kent, Berkshire and Surrey; the completion of his thesis; and his appointment a...

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Fieldwork File 8

1959-1974

Correspondence between Harold Orton and David Parry regarding Parry’s fieldwork for his thesis on the dialects of Radnorshire, Breconshire, Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire; the compilation of a gra...

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Fieldwork File 9

1954-1961

Correspondence between Harold Orton and Donald R. Sykes regarding Sykes’ Survey of English Dialects fieldwork. 1 file. 1954-1961.

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Fieldwork File 10

1964-1967

Correspondence between Harold Orton and Martyn Wakelin, Peter Wright, and John T. Wright, regarding Survey of English Dialects fieldwork. 1 file. 1964-1967.

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Fieldwork File 11

1956-1962

Correspondence between Harold Orton and the British Institute of Recorded Sound (BIRS) regarding the deposit of Survey of English Dialects copy sound recordings with the Institute. 1 file. 1956-1962.

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