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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...
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.
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 ...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
Fieldwork File 9
1954-1961
Correspondence between Harold Orton and Donald R. Sykes regarding Sykes’ Survey of English Dialects fieldwork. 1 file. 1954-1961.
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.
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.