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A Word Geography of England
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1970-1973
Correspondence between Harold Orton and Nathalia Wright and the publishers, Seminar Press, regarding the publication of their book, 'A Word Geography of England'. This sub-subseries also contains lett...
A Word Geography of England
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1970-1977
This subfonds includes items relating to the production of 'A Word Geography of England' (WGE), the first linguistic atlas based on the Survey of English Dialects to be published. It consists of edito...
Draft Maps
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1960-1974
This sub-subseries comprises draft word maps compiled by Nathalia Wright, Clive Upton and Sue Powell for 'The Linguistic Atlas of England' (LAE). It also includes early draft maps by Harold Orton and ...
Maps
Orton, Harold (1898-1975); Wright, Nathalia
1966-1974
This subseries consists of papers relating to the preparation and production of maps for 'A Word Geography of England' (WGE). It includes typed editorial notes on mapping conventions; typed lists of n...
LAE Editorial Notes and Papers
Powell, Susan
1970s
This file contains typed, photocopied and ms. notes from Linguistic Atlas of England editorial meetings; lists of notions of LAE maps, including phonological notions and ones based on questions from t...
Maps
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1950s-mid 1970s]
This subfonds contains a collection of maps that cannot be specifically linked with either the Survey of English Dialects (SED) publication programme, or with the activities of the Institute of Dialec...
Base and Dialect Area Maps
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
[1950s-mid 1970s]
This series consists of photocopied and printed base and dialect-area maps, which are predominantly blank and mainly relate to England and the English counties. It includes various base maps of Englan...
Harold Orton Papers
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
1893-1975
This series relates specifically to Harold Orton's academic research in the field of language and linguistics, and contains correspondence with Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers, publisher...